Stranger than fiction : true stories / Chuck Palahniuk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palahniuk, Chuck.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxii, 233 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Anchor Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Anchor Books, 2005.

Summary:

Overview: Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Included are 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 drivetrain installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world (and mangled ears) of college wrestlers; the underground world of iron-pumping anabolic-steroid gobblers; the immensely upsetting 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 our most flagrantly daring and original literary talents.

Contents:

Fact and fiction: an introduction

People Together:

Testy festy

Where meat comes from

You are here

Demolition

My life as a dog

Confessions in stone

Frontiers

People can

Lady

Portraits:

In her own words

Why isn't he budging?

Not chasing Amy

Reading yourself

Bodhisattvas

Human error

Dear Mr Levin

Personal:

Escort

Almost California

Lip enhancer

Monkey think, monkey do

Brinksmanship

Now I remember

Consolation prizes.

ISBN:

9780385722223

0385722222

0385504489

9780385504485

OCLC:

809164039