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  • Published: 30 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446483985
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

Non-Fiction




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.

  • Published: 30 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446483985
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

About the author

Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk is the bestselling author of fifteen fictional works, including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Rant, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned, Doomed, Beautiful You, and, most recently, Make Something Up. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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Praise for Non-Fiction

All are spicy, clever dispatches from the frontier between macho and camp

Freddy Hamilton, Telegraph

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

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

Like a noxious Douglas Coupland, Palahniuk charts new-felt and totally contemporary categories of despair

Ali Smith, Guardian