Chuck Palahniuk Livres

Sur le plus haut building du monde, deux hommes, Tyler Durden et le narrateur, sont sur le point d'exploser dans dix minutes. En flashback, un jeune cadre raconte ses errances entre avions et sa vie à examiner des voitures pour un constructeur. Bien qu'il soit en bonne santé, il fréquente divers groupes thérapeutiques, s'immergeant dans le malheur des autres pour retrouver le sommeil, jusqu'à croiser Marla, une sadomasochiste partageant la même imposture. Sa rencontre avec Tyler Durden, créateur des fight clubs, est encore plus bouleversante. Ces lieux où de jeunes Américains se battent à mains nues cherchent peut-être à donner un sens à leur existence dans un monde consumériste où "la douleur est la vérité, l'unique vérité". Pour Durden, cependant, il faut aller bien plus loin. Trois ans après sa sortie aux États-Unis, ce premier roman de Chuck Palahniuk, à l'origine du film controversé réalisé par David Fincher, est enfin traduit. Le livre se révèle plus dérangeant, cynique et déjanté que le film, évoquant des thèmes similaires à ceux de Bret Easton Ellis dans American Psycho, tout en dénonçant un monde en impasse. Plus qu'une simple lecture, c'est une expérience, déjà un titre culte, récompensé par le prix de la Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association en 1996.

Victor Mancini est figurant dans un " musée vivant " où le moindre anachronisme est puni par la mise au pilori avec suspension de salaire. Il est sexoolique, drogué du sexe en thérapie verbale, incapable d'aimer. Son meilleur ami se promène avec des cailloux enroulés dans des couvertures et sa mère, folle à lier, le ruine sans jamais reconnaître en lui le fils dont elle a ravagé l'enfance... Pour quelles raisons ? Où se niche véritablement la folie ? Pourquoi Victor continue-t-il de se faire vomir publiquement dans des restaurants chics et qui saura lui révéler l'incroyable secret de sa naissance ? Un livre de Palahniuk ne se résume pas, c'est déjanté, subversif et incroyablement lucide.

Vingt-trois apprentis écrivains sont rassemblés par l’énigmatique M. Whittier pour accoucher de leur chef-d’œuvre. Mais ce qui était censé être un havre de sérénité se révèle un implacable piège. À la fin de leur séjour ils auront tous une histoire à raconter mais certainement pas celle qu’ils imaginaient…

Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling. In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a"kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved authors and artists, with anecdotes, postcards from the road, and much more. Clear-eyed, sensitive, illuminating, and knowledgeable, Consider This is Palahniuk's love letter to stories and storytellers, booksellers and books themselves. Consider it a classic in the making.

Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling. In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved authors and artists, with anecdotes, postcards from the road, and much more. Clear-eyed, sensitive, illuminating, and knowledgeable, Consider this is Palahniuk's love letter to stories and storytellers, booksellers and books themselves. Consider it a classic in the making.

A fashion model with everything is disfigured in a road "accident" and goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being a monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. She then has to learn that reinventing herself means erasing her past and making up something better.

From the author of the cult sensation Fight Club (now a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter) comes Survivor. "A turbo-charged, deliciously manic satire of contemporary American life." --"Newsday "The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," according to the "been there, done that" wisdom of Tender Branson, last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult. At the opening of Chuck Palahniuk's hilariously unnerving second novel, Tender is cruising on autopilot, 39,000 feet up, dictating the whole of his life story into Flight 2039's "black box" in the final moments before crashing into the vast Australian outback. Not since Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night has there been as dark and telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world. Wickedly incisive and mesmerizing, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak.

Takes the form of an oral history of one Buster 'Rant' Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, admirers, detractors and relations have their say on this 'evil, gender-conflicted Forrest Gump character'.

All the beautiful people live in the idyllic village of Stepford, Connecticut, an affluent suburban Eden populated with successful, satisfied hubbys and their beautiful, dutiful wives. For Joanna Eberhart, a recent arrival with her husband and two children, it all seems too perfect to be true -- from the sweet, accommodating Welcome Wagon lady to all those cheerful, friendly faces in the supermarket checkout lines. But just beneath the town's flawless surface, something is sordid and wrong -- something abominable with roots in the local Men's Association. And it may already be too late for Joanna to save herself from being devoured by Stepford's hideous perfection.--back cover

Rant is an anti-hero whose recreational drug of choice is rabies. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On designated nights, the Party Crashers chase each other in cars in the hope of a collision, and all the while Rant, the 'superspreader', transmits his lethal disease.