Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #115823 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Freddy Hamilton, Telegraph
‘All are spicy, clever dispatches from the frontier between macho and camp’

From the Publisher
The first collection of non-fiction by the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary

About the Author
Chuck Palahniuk is the author of Fight Club (made into a film by director David Fincher), Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Choke, Lullaby and Diary. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Customer Reviews

What can I say?
I was given this book as a gift and felt somewhat obliged to read the darn thing. What a hell of a boring book this one turned out to be. The book contains stories/descriptions of events, situations, and people that have in some way been a part of or passed through the author, Chuck Palahniuk's life. No doubt most of these events and/or people are supposedly kooky, off-the-wall and quite exceptions from regular society but... for me they all just seemed so mind numbingly borrrrrrrrrrrring!!