Stranger Than Fiction - True Stories

Zusatztext "Full of wonderful moments...Palahniuk's voice is so distinctive and intimate--he writes as though he is recounting a great story to a close friend." -- Los Angeles Times "Step into Palahniuk's dark worldview and watch for what crawls out. These stories are true to him and no one else." -- The Oregonian “One of the oddest and most oddly compelling collections to come along for some time.” — The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “In Chuck Palahniuk’s world! the ride is fast! often disturbing! and there is never any holding back.” — The New Orleans Times-Picayune “Eccentric! idiosyncratic! and often entertaining.” — The Onion "Priceless grace notes from an exceptionally droll and sharp-eyed observer." -- The New York Times “Rarely does a collection of essays continually resonate with a main theme and accumulate a weight that would lead you to call it a great book. . . . This is a pretty great book.” — The Seattle Times "The book's lurid appeal rests largely on being let in on Palahniuk's secrets! the raw material for much of his fiction. . . . Acts that give spice to his novels are made more menacing when encountered in the real world." -- Black Book Informationen zum Autor CHUCK PALAHNIUK is the author of fourteen novels— Beautiful You, Doomed, Damned, Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Diary, Lullaby, Choke, Invisible Monsters, Survivor , and  Fight Club —which have sold more than five million copies altogether in the United States. He is also the author of  Fugitives and Refugees , published as part of the Crown Journey Series, and the nonfiction collection  Stranger Than Fiction . He lives in the Pacific Northwest. Visit him on the web at chuckpalahniuk.net. Klappentext Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson reads his own Tarot cards and talks sweetly to his beautiful actress girlfriend. Across the country, men build their own full-size castles and rocketships that will send them into space. Palahniuk himself experiments with steroids, works on an assembly line by day and as a hospice volunteer by night, and experiences the brutal murder of his father by a white supremacist. With this new direction, Chuck Palahniuk has proven he can do anything. Leseprobe You Are Here In the ballroom at the Airport Sheraton Hotel, a team of men and women sit inside separate booths, curtained off from each other. They each sit at a small table, the curtains enclosing a space just big enough for the table and two chairs. And they listen. All day, they sit and listen. Outside the ballroom, a crowd waits in the lobby, writers holding book manuscripts or movie screenplays. An organizer guards the ballroom doors, checking a list of names on a clipboard. She calls your name, and you step forward and follow her into the ballroom. The organizer parts a curtain. You take a seat at the little table. And you start to talk. As a writer, you have seven minutes. Some places you might get eight or even ten minutes, but then the organizer will return to replace you with another writer. For this window of time, you’ve paid between twenty and fifty dollars to pitch your story to a book agent or a publisher or movie producer. And all day, the ballroom at the Airport Sheraton is buzzing with talk. Most of the writers here are old—creepy old, retired people clutching their one good story. Shaking their manuscript in both spotted hands and saying, “Here! Read my incest story!” A big segme...

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"Full of wonderful moments...Palahniuk's voice is so distinctive and intimate--he writes as though he is recounting a great story to a close friend." --Los Angeles Times
"Step into Palahniuk's dark worldview and watch for what crawls out. These stories are true to him and no one else." --The Oregonian
One of the oddest and most oddly compelling collections to come along for some time. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In Chuck Palahniuk s world, the ride is fast, often disturbing, and there is never any holding back. The New Orleans Times-Picayune
Eccentric, idiosyncratic, and often entertaining. The Onion
"Priceless grace notes from an exceptionally droll and sharp-eyed observer." --The New York Times
Rarely does a collection of essays continually resonate with a main theme and accumulate a weight that would lead you to call it a great book. . . . This is a pretty great book. The Seattle Times
"The book's lurid appeal rests largely on being let in on Palahniuk's secrets, the raw material for much of his fiction. . . . Acts that give spice to his novels are made more menacing when encountered in the real world." --Black Book

Product details

• Authors: Chuck Palahniuk
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9780385722223
• ISBN: 978-0-385-72222-3
• No. of pages: 233
• Weight: 265 g
• Series: Anchor Books; ANCHOR
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies