The first collection of non-fiction by the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary.
Comprises of the pieces that aim to prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. This work contains essays or vignettes that offer a facet of existence as lived in or observed by one of America's original literary talents.
The first collection of non-fiction by the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary Chuck Palahniuk's world has been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Non-Fiction prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the big budget film production of the movie Fight Club; life as an assembly-line drive train installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world of college wrestlers; the underground world of anabolic steroid gobblers; the harrowing circumstances of his father's murder and the trial of his killer - each essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and/or observed by one of America's most flagrantly daring and original literary talents.
“Like a noxious Douglas Coupland, Palahniuk charts new-felt and totally contemporary categories of despair”
"All are spicy, clever dispatches from the frontier between macho and camp" -- Freddy Hamilton Telegraph "Casts a gleefully amoral eye at the world around him... You couldn't, as the man says, make it up" -- Sean O'Hagan Observer "Comically rueful and tragically bloodshot" The Times "An immensely skilful writer. He has a sober, searching intelligence and he examines Hollywood and the prairie states with an unflinching candour and a rare strain of melancholy" Daily Telegraph "" -- Ali Smith Guardian
Chuck Palahniuk is the author of Fight Club (made into a film by director David Fincher), Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Choke, Lullaby and Diary amongst others. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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