New Releases by Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk is the author of Fight Club 2 #1 (2012), Invisible Monsters Remix (2012), Nana (2012), Diario. Una novela (2012), El club de la lucha (2012).

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Fight Club 2 #1

release date: Aug 22, 2012
Fight Club 2 #1
**Tyler Durden lives!** Some imaginary friends never go away . . . Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, he lives a mundane life. A kid, a wife, pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it won''t last long; the wife has seen to that. The time has come . . . Rize or Die. * Chuck Palahniuk writes the sequel to _Fight Club_! * One of the most anticipated comics of the year. * Named to ComicBook.com''s Top 10 Comic Events We Can''t Wait For in 2015! The first rule of Fight Club might be not to talk about it, but tongues are already wagging about Chuck Palahniuk''s sequel to his 1996 novel.� The Telegraph (London) Just wait until you see what happens next.� Hollywood Reporter Heat Vision, 5 Comics to Look Out For in 2015

Invisible Monsters Remix

release date: Jun 11, 2012
Invisible Monsters Remix
"A harrowing, perverse, laugh-aloud funny rocket ride." —Seattle Times Injected with new material and special design elements, Invisible Monsters Remix fulfills Chuck Palahniuk’s original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. Palahniuk’s fashion-model protagonist has it all—boyfriend, career, loyal best friend—until an accident destroys her face, her ability to speak, and her self-esteem. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a bona-fide woman. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book’s characters. Readers will jump between chapters, reread the book to understand the dissolve between fiction and fact, and decipher the playful book design, embarking on a ride they’ll never forget.

Nana

release date: Apr 12, 2012
Nana
En Nana , Palahniuk ha afinado al máximo su oído para crear una parábola tan importante como disparatada. A Carl Streator le han encargado una serie de artículos sobre la muerte súbita infantil, algo que le resulta familiar pues él mismo perdió a su hijo en circunstancias extrañas. Tan extrañas como que en todas las casas donde ha muerto un bebé hay un ejemplar de una antología de poemas africanos que contiene una nana letal. El periodista, una agente inmobiliaria, su secretaria y el novio de esta emprenderán un hilarante viaje a la caza de todos los ejemplares del libro, incluido el que ahora usted sostiene en sus manos... La crítica ha dicho... «Corra a comprar libros de Palahniuk. Vaya a la biblioteca del barrio. Pídaselos a un amigo. Róbelos. Pero léalos. Ya está tardando.» ABC «Como Kurt Vonnegut, Palahniuk hace juegos malabares sobre el nihilismo y el idealismo, con un estilo fluido y divertido. Reformula pautas de comportamiento que finalmente adquieren un tono casi místico.» The New York Times «Palahniuk es una de las voces más frescas e intrigantes que han aparecido en mucho tiempo. Retoma el sentido del humor de Vonnegut, el mordaz análisissocial de DeLillo y el surrealismo de Pynchon para construir un puzzle brillante, brutal y muy personal.» New York Newsday «Cuando uno lee a Palahniuk capta que algo sucede en Estados Unidos que, cada tanto, en medio de tanta mentira, surge alguien que dice la verdad. Palahniuk, como Denis Johnson, poetizan, casi sin darse cuenta, lo que sucede debajo de las autopistas iluminadas, en esos barrios oscuros, abandonados. Uno entra en sus libros limpio y sale sangrando, hediondo, dañado, vivo.» Alberto Fuguet

Diario. Una novela

release date: Apr 12, 2012
Diario. Una novela
Una novela divertida, salvaje, terrorífica y totalmente nihilista. La camarera Misty Marie Wilmot, sufrida trabajadora en un centro turístico, cuyo marido yace en coma tras un intento de suicidio, se propone tomar nota de todo lo que ocurre para que él pueda leerlo cuando regrese del otro lado, si eso llega a suceder. Mientras ella escribe su diario, diferentes actos de vandalismo contra los turistas y reveladores graffiti en las paredes se suceden como indicios de la existencia de algo podrido. «Nadie hay más brutalmente tierno que Palahniuk en la joven ficción norteamericana. Con él está asegurada la diversión.» El Mundo «Corra a comprar los libros de Palahniuk. Vaya a la biblioteca del barrio. Pídaselos a un amigo. Róbelos. Pero léalo. Ya está tardando.» ABC Cultural «Narrada con una prosa cruda y que elude florituras, sus novelas son salvajes y divertidas en su dramatismo.» El País

El club de la lucha

release date: Apr 12, 2012
El club de la lucha
El club de la lucha , una de las novelas contemporáneas más originales y provocadoras, que ya se ha convertido en un clásico underground. La primera regla del club de la lucha es no hablar del club de la lucha. Cada fin de semana, un puñado de jóvenes oficinistas se quita los zapatos y las camisas y pelean entre sí hasta la extenuación. Los lunes vuelven a sus despachos con los ojos amoratados y un embriagador sentimiento de omnipotencia. Pero estas reuniones son solo el comienzo del plan con el que Tyler Durden, proyeccionista, camarero y oscuro genio anárquico, aspira a vengarse de una sociedad paralizada por el consumismo exacerbado. Reseña: «Una novela corrosiva e hilarante.» The Washington Post Book World

Damned

release date: Oct 18, 2011
Damned
Think adolescence is hell? You have no idea... Welcome to Dante''s Inferno, by way of The Breakfast Club, from the mind of American fiction''s most brilliant troublemaker. "Death, like life, is what you make out of it." So says Madison, the whip-tongued 11-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk''s subversive homage to the young adult genre. Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off touting their new film projects and adopting more orphans. Over the holidays she dies of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she''s in Hell. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno inspired by both the most extreme and mundane of human evils, where The English Patient plays on repeat and roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb. However, underneath Madison''s sad teenager affect there is still a child struggling to accept not only the events of her dysfunctional life, but also the truth about her death. For Madison, though, a more immediate source of comfort lies in the motley crew of young sinners she meets during her first days in Hell. With the help of Archer, Babette, Leonard, and Patterson, she learns to navigate Hell--and discovers that she''d rather be mortal and deluded and stupid with those she loves than perfect and alone.

Non-Fiction

release date: Jun 30, 2011
Non-Fiction
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.

Survivor: A Novel

release date: Mar 21, 2011
Survivor: A Novel
"Brilliantly satiric and savagely funny, Survivor is a wild amphetamine ride through the vagaries of fame and the nature of belief." —San Francisco Chronicle Tender Branson—last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into the recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. But before it does, Branson will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child and humble domestic servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah.

Invisible Monsters: A Novel

release date: Mar 21, 2011
Invisible Monsters: A Novel
"A harrowing, perverse, laugh-aloud funny rocket ride of catastrophes…Gutsy, terse and cunning, Invisible Monsters may emerge as Palahniuk’s strongest book." —Greg Berkman, Seattle Times She’s a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better. And that salvation hides in the last places you’ll ever want to look.

Tell-All

release date: May 04, 2010
Tell-All
Tell-All is many things: A Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Grand Dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. A Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama full of big gestures and muted psychic torment. A veritable Tourette''s syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list. A merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman''s habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond.

Niewidzialne potwory

release date: Jan 01, 2010
Niewidzialne potwory
Byla supermodelka i przez chwile miala u stóp caly swiat - telewizja non stop nadawala reklamy z jej udzialem, ludzie rozpoznawali ja na ulicy, zarabiala mnóstwo pieniedzy, miala oddanych przyjaciól i chlopaka, którego zazdroscily jej kolezanki. Byla ikona piekna, lecz wystarczyl jeden wypadek, by stala sie posmiewiskiem, niemym potworem, by wszyscy zapomnieli o jej istnieniu. I wtedy wlasnie, gdy calkiem stracila nadzieje na kontakt ze swiatem, poznaje Brandy Alexander, superkrólowa, oryginalna pieknosc, która juz tylko jedna operacja dzieli od przeistoczenia sie w kobiete. Razem z nia i jej uwodzicielskim przyjacielem Signorem Alfa Romeo przemierzaja Ameryke wzdluz i wszerz, od jednego bogatego domu na sprzedaz do drugiego.

Pygmy

release date: Sep 30, 2009
Pygmy
“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.” Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates Americans with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of a xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified.

Monstruos invisibles

release date: May 01, 2009

Peste : roman

release date: Jan 01, 2009
Peste : roman
Mais qui est donc Buster Casey, alias Rant ? Dans un futur où une partie de la population est " diurne " et l''autre " nocturne " selon un couvre-feu très strict, Peste prend la forme d''une biographie orale faite de rapports contradictoires émanant de témoins qui ont connu le mystérieux Buster de près ou de loin. Garçon aux moeurs étranges, friand de morsures animales en tous genres pour certains, génial tueur en série ou répugnant individu pour d''autres, le véritable Buster Casey semble, au fil des récits, de plus en plus insaisissable et protéiforme. De quoi alimenter le mythe... Évangile subversif et grotesque où le rire donne la réplique à l''horreur, Peste décrit un monde qui marche sur la tête, où la vie est à mourir d''ennui et la mort positive et créatrice. Chuck Palahniuk explore, encore et toujours, les tréfonds de la vie moderne et dresse le portrait en creux d''une Amérique en mal de repères.

Rant

release date: May 06, 2008
Rant
Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. With hilarity, horror, and blazing insight, Rant is a mind-bending vision of the future, as only Chuck Palahniuk could ever imagine.

Fugitives and Refugees

release date: Dec 18, 2007
Fugitives and Refugees
Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk’s tonsils currently reside? Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets? Curious about Chuck’s debut in an MTV music video? What goes on at the Scum Center? How do you get to the Apocalypse Café? In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers, and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love, Portland is the home of America’s “fugitives and refugees.” Get to know these folks, the “most cracked of the crackpots,” as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise believe actually exist. No other travel guide will give you this kind of access to “a little history, a little legend, and a lot of friendly, sincere, fascinating people who maybe should’ve kept their mouths shut.” Here are strange personal museums, weird annual events, and ghost stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingers’ sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabe’s famous 1940s Self-Cleaning House. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa Rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland zoo. Oh, the list goes on and on.

Haunted

release date: Apr 11, 2006
Haunted
Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They’re told by people who have answered an ad for a writer’s retreat and unwittingly joined a “Survivor”-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme, and they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show that will surely be made from their plight. This is one of the most disturbing and outrageous books you’ll ever read, one that could only come from the mind of Chuck Palahniuk.

Fight Club: A Novel

release date: Oct 17, 2005
Fight Club: A Novel
"Fight Club''s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basement of bars."--P. [3] of cover.

Stranger Than Fiction

release date: May 10, 2005
Stranger Than Fiction
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.

Journal intime

release date: Jan 01, 2005
Journal intime
Misty Wilmot est une femme frustrée : coincée sur une île défigurée par l''invasion touristique, elle travaille comme une esclave dans le grand hôtel du coin pour faire vivre sa famille. Son mari, Peter, un architecte qu''elle a rencontré des années plus tôt dans une école d''art, a tenté de se suicider et se retrouve dans le coma. Plus rien ne tourne rond dans la vie de Misty : pourquoi Peter, avant de vouloir en finir, s''est-il amusé à sceller certaines pièces des villas touristiques sur lesquelles il travaillait ? Comment expliquer les messages haineux qu''il a bombés sur les murs, annonçant la vengeance des habitants de l''île contre les envahisseurs extérieurs ? Pourquoi les autochtones se mettent-ils à la regarder bizarrement ? Misty décide de mettre ses peurs noir sur blanc et d''écrire un journal intime. Mais attention, la folie guette... Au fil du temps et de ses livres, les interrogations de Palahniuk se font plus complexes, plus intimes et plus profondes : ses récits deviennent de plus en plus inclassables ; ils louchent vers le fantastique, l''irréel et le paranormal. Mélange de Jung, Borges, Levine - l''auteur de Rosemary''s Baby - passé à la centrifugeuse Palahniuk, ce Journal intime est un cocktail détonant.

Club de lluita

release date: Jan 01, 2005
Club de lluita
Chuck Palahniuk (Portland, Oregón, 1964) és llicenciat en periodisme per la Universitat de Portland i va asistir al taller d’escriptura creativa de Tom Spanbauer (El hombre que se enamoró de la luna, El Aleph, 1994). Ja llicenciat, i davant la impossibilitat de trobar feina com a periodista, va aconseguir entrar en una empresa de fabricació de contenidors, primer a la cadena de muntatge i després com a redactor tècnic. La frustració i el pessimisme davant la precarietat del dia a dia, i el futur incert que compartia amb la seva generació, van inspirar la novel·la Club de lluita, convertida ja en un clàssic a tot el món. Un clàssic underground des que es va publicar el 1996, Club de lluita és actualment una novel·la reconeguda com una de les més originals i provocadores de la literatura contemporània. Portaveu d’una generació inconformista que vol viure al marge, i adaptada al cinema per David Fincher amb gran èxit de taquilla, Club de lluita és una magistral novel·la que narra els avatars d’uns joves oficinistes que els caps de setmana es barallen a cops de puny i els dilluns tornen a les seves feines amb els ulls morats i una sensació embriagadora de llibertat, omnipotència i superioritat. Aquestes reunions clandestines són part del pla amb el qual Tyler Durden, cambrer, projeccionista i geni anàrquic, pretén venjar-se d’una societat malalta pel consumisme desfermat.«Un debut impressionant... Club de lluita és una sàtira obscura i inquietant que et posa en tensió» Seattle Times«Una sàtira extrema sobre els joves dolents i llestos als quals la societat de consum ha deixat sense futur» Juan Marín, El País«Una novel·la original, obscura, poderosa... el debut memorable d’un nou escriptor fonamental» Robert Stone

Le festival de la couille et autres histoires vraies

release date: Jan 01, 2005
Le festival de la couille et autres histoires vraies
On connaît Chuck Palahniuk : ses héros illuminés, ses intrigues surréalistes, son exploration d''un monde à la marge. Ses livres sont le reflet d''une réalité peu ragoûtante qu''il étudie cliniquement. Un univers à la fois burlesque et macabre qui renvoie à son histoire personnelle, aux épreuves qu''il a traversées et à son goût pour les expériences incongrues. Une partouze géante au fin fond de l''Ouest américain, un combat de moissonneuses-batteuses, une expédition en sous-marin nucléaire, un face-à-face improbable avec Marilyn Manson : autant d''évocations d''une Amérique déjantée dont Chuck Palahniuk s''est fait le chroniqueur. Dans ce recueil d''histoires vraies où se mêlent subversion, tendresse, humour décapant et exhibitionnisme, il démontre combien la réalité peut dépasser l''imagination et dévoile ainsi l''envers du décor de ses romans. Car c''est aussi de littérature et du travail de l''écrivain qu''il s''agit. On ne ressort pas indemne de ce voyage au bout du bizarre et du tragique.

Diary

release date: Sep 14, 2004
Diary
Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they’ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled. Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives. What unfolds is a dark, hilarious story from America’s most inventive nihilist, and Palahniuk’s most impressive work to date.

Cantiga de ninar

release date: Jan 01, 2004
Cantiga de ninar
O nome deste livro parece sugerir inocência. Mas como o escritor em questão é Chuck Palahniuk, autor do cultuado Clube da luta, o que se tem aqui é o mais puro humor negro. Palahniuk usa sua narrativa moderna com temperos bizarros para fazer uma crítica à cultura de massas, num texto divertido e ao mesmo tempo sombrio, como é sua marca registrada. O narrador é Carl Streator, um jornalista que está investigando casos de síndrome de morte infantil súbita para uma série de reportagens que pretende publicar. Ele logo descobre que algumas das mortes têm um estranho detalhe em comum - antes de morrer subitamente, os bebês ouviram seus pais lerem o mesmo trecho de um determinado livro raro. Trata-se de uma compilação de canções tradicionais de culturas antigas, cujos versos da página 27 são capazes de matar qualquer pessoa que os ouça. O jornalista entoa a cantiga para seu chefe, só para checar se ela é mesmo capaz de matar - e ela é. Streator se torna um serial killer involuntário, desesperado para cessar a matança.Streator se entrega a uma série de questionamentos. Temos livre-arbítrio? Ou Deus determina tudo o que fazemos? Ou a mídia e a cultura de massas controlam nossos desejos e atos?

Berceuse

release date: Jan 01, 2004
Berceuse
Carl Streator est journaliste et mène une enquête sur le phénomène de la mort subite du nourrisson. Au cours de ses recherches, il fait la connaissance de John Nash, un ambulancier nécrophile, et se rend compte que les parents des victimes ont tous lu à leur enfant une certaine berceuse tirée d''un livre de poèmes dont il reste deux cents exemplaires dans tout le pays. Au cours de ses investigations, Carl rencontre Helen Hoover Boyle, agent immobilier spécialiste en maisons hantées; elle lui apprend que la berceuse est en réalité un sort maléfique tiré malencontreusement d''un livre de sorcellerie, le Livre des Ombres, qui contient tous les enchantements, bons ou mauvais, accumulés au cours des siècles par les sorciers. Carl et Helen, accompagnés d''un écolo radical et d''une mystique New Age, traversent les États-Unis à la recherche de tous les exemplaires existants, avec le secret espoir de trouver aussi le grimoire original du Livre des Ombres. Mais à quoi bon tenter de résumer un roman de Chuck Palahniuk ? Comme les autres, Berceuse est une bombe à retardement, un livre rétroactif, un nouveau tour de magie d''un auteur qui est en train de créer, en toute discrétion, une des ouvres les plus originales et les plus radicales de la littérature américaine de ce début de siècle.

Monstres invisibles

release date: Jan 01, 2003
Monstres invisibles
La vie de Shannon ressemble à un conte de fées pour adolescentes : mannequin jeune et jolie, elle se partage entre son petit copain et Evie, sa meilleure amie, mannequin comme elle. Un jour, au volant de sa voiture, une balle perdue lui brise la mâchoire inférieure. A jamais défigurée, tellement laide que son entourage fait semblant de ne pas la voir, Shannon est projetée dans un monde invisible dont elle devient un monstre emblématique. C''est à l''hôpital que Shannon va trouver son salut en la personne de Brandy Alexander, transsexuel excentrique près de l''opération définitive. Grâce à elle, Shannon va apprendre à se réinventer une autre vie dans cette société américaine où tout n''est qu''apparence. Lors d''une course-poursuite rocambolesque qui la conduit à travers les Etats-Unis et le Canada, Shannon, rompant le cercle des apparences, connaîtra enfin la vérité. Roman déroutant d''une noirceur assumée, Monstres invisibles surprend par sa forme élaborée et par le désespoir de son propos. Qui sont ces Monstres invisibles si ce n''est cette partie secrète de nous-mêmes qui triche sans cesse avec la réalité pour mieux coller aux apparences ? La lecture de Monstres invisibles laisse une sensation de malaise et de gêne. Le monde est-il vraiment comme l''auteur nous le décrit ? Palahniuk ne répond pas à cette question et laisse à chacun le soin de se forger une opinion.
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