Chuck Palahniuk tackles Hollywood, in an hilarious assault on celebrity, and the Golden Age of Hollywood, when grand dames ruled the roost
Chuck Palahniuk is the author of fourteen best-selling novels - Beautiful You, Doomed, Damned, Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Diary, Lullaby, Choke, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, and Fight Club. He is also the author of Fugitives and Refugees and the non-fiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. Visit him on the web at chuckpalahniuk.net.
Blackly hilarious...full of brilliantly acid one-liners...a
gripping, outrageous and stylishly written hoot
*News Of The World*
Chuck turns his gimlet and razor sharp pen on celebrity, with a
darkly sparkling tale inspired by the classic All About Eve
*Grazia*
Palahniuk remains a cutting stylist who knows how to toss a
well-aimed barb
*Daily Telegraph*
With his love of contemporary fairy tales that are gritty and dirty
rather than pretty, Palahniuk is the likeliest inheritor of
Vonnegut's place in American writing
*San Francisco Chronicle*
Chuck Palahniuk is one of modern American fiction's most
interesting stylists, and he's at it again... A masterful feat
*Associated Press*
Palahniuk channels old Hollywood in this homage to Billy Wilder's classic film Sunset Boulevard. Mazie Coogan tends to the needs of Katherine Kenton, a washed-up film star who still believes she lives in the spotlight. When a stranger enters their lives and seduces Miss Kathie, Mazie unravels his secret plot to write a memoir about his dalliance with the star that culminates in Miss Kathie's death. Hilary Huber's pitch and pronunciation are inspired by the great actresses of the 1930s and '40s. Her arch voice recalls the smoky tones of cigarette tapping screen stars, and her raspy narration is chilling. A Doubleday hardcover (Reviews, Mar. 22). (May) Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information.
Blackly hilarious...full of brilliantly acid one-liners...a
gripping, outrageous and stylishly written hoot * News Of The World
*
Chuck turns his gimlet and razor sharp pen on celebrity, with a
darkly sparkling tale inspired by the classic All About Eve
-- Lauren Laverne * Grazia *
Palahniuk remains a cutting stylist who knows how to toss a
well-aimed barb * Daily Telegraph *
With his love of contemporary fairy tales that are gritty and dirty
rather than pretty, Palahniuk is the likeliest inheritor of
Vonnegut's place in American writing * San Francisco Chronicle
*
Chuck Palahniuk is one of modern American fiction's most
interesting stylists, and he's at it again... A masterful feat *
Associated Press *
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