| Product Summary | | Format: Multimedia Software | | ISBN: 9781400157334 | | Publisher: Tantor Media | | Publish Date: 5/20/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 207649646 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.5H x 5.25L x 0.5T |
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| | | From Chuck Palahniuk, the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before.
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Chuck Palahniuk's novels are notorious for their disturbing--and disturbingly fun--premises that slyly undermine the reader's sense of societal norms. In his ninth foray into our cultural underbelly, Palahniuk chronicles aging porn star Cassie Wright's greatest and nastiest chance at skin-flick notoriety as she attempts to have sex with 600 men in a single day. Though the material is raunchy, and the humor is as dark as ever, Palahniuk's bestseller succeeds through its sympathetic and surprisingly sincere character studies of three would-be studs, each waiting for his number to be called: Mr. 137, an over-the-hill actor also looking for one last hoorah in his career; Mr. 600, a porn maven who has known Wright from the beginning; and Mr. 72, a young man claiming to be one of Cassie's many abandoned children.
| Praise| "Taken together, Palahniuk's oeuvre reads as a history of contemporary, late-capitalist America. Novels such as FIGHT CLUB and DIARY present the folktales and mythologies of our time, the stories that people a hundred years from now will read to correctly understand who we were. In SNUFF, he does a masterful job of putting all of our excesses, phobias and neuroses on full display." - Andrew Ervin 05/22/2008 |
| Author Bio| Chuck Palahniuk | | Chuck Palahniuk (pronounced PAULA-nik) is a writer of disturbing novels and short stories that frequently expose the unpleasant underbelly of modern society and the human psyche. Palahniuk was born in Washington State and still lives in the Pacific Northwest. He went to the University of Oregon where he received his B.A. in journalism. After a short stint as a journalist, Palahniuk became an assembly-line mechanic for Freightliner. During this time he attended a writing workshop led by Tom Spanbauer, a disciple of Gordon Lish's minimalist approach to fiction writing, and a powerful influence on Palahniuk's literary style and philosophy. After his novel INVISIBLE MONSTERS was rejected for being too disturbing (it was later published), Palahniuk wrote the even more disturbing FIGHT CLUB, based in part on his experiences as a member of the Cacophony Society, a loose-knit organization specializing in pranks and rowdiness. After its publication FIGHT CLUB was made into a film by David Fincher, starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. The film created a devoted cult following for Palahniuk, and his subsequent novels have all achieved mainstream commercial success. Though occasionally accused of using shock value and sexism in his work, Palahniuk's sick and twisted tales continue to fascinate his mostly young audience, and have drawn comparisons to Irvine Welsh and Bret Easton Ellis. |
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