Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey - Brossura

Palahniuk, Chuck

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ISBN 10: 0307388891 ISBN 13: 9780307388896

Casa editrice: Random House LCC US, 2008

Riassunto

"Rant" 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 (in Chuck Palahniuk's words) 'evil, gender-conflicted Forrest Gump character'. Buster Casey was a very small kid born into a small town, searching for real thrills in a world of video games and action/adventure movies. Anyone who's ever kissed him would do well to seek treatment, for his recreational drug of choice is rabies and he gets bitten by black widow spiders for the priapic effect of their venom. The high school rebel who wins, Rant Casey escapes from his hometown of Middleton for the big city, where he becomes a leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing where, on designated nights, the participants recognise each other by dressing their cars with tin-can tails and 'Just Married' toothpaste graffiti. (Or with 'forgotten' coffee mugs bolted to their car roofs or Christmas trees tied from bumper to bumper.) During specific windows of time, in limited areas of the city, Party Crashers look for the designated markings in order to stalk and crash into each other. It's in this violent, late-night hunting game that Casey meets three friends. And after his spectacular death, these friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short life. Their collected anecdotes explore the charges that his saliva infected hundreds and caused a silent, urban plague of rabies. But it's a plague that liberates his peers from being stuck in only one boring track through history...Expect hilarity, horror and blazing insight into the desperate and surreal contemporary human condition as only Chuck Palahniuk can deliver it. He's the post-millennial Jonathan Swift, the man to watch to learn what's - uh-oh - coming next.

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“One of the most feverish imaginations in American letters. . . . More than your weekly prescribed dose of humor and humanity, cleverness and outrage.”
—The Washington Post

“Brilliant. . . extremely fun. . . . With his love of contemporary fairytales that are gritty and dirty rather than pretty, Palahniuk is the likeliest inheritor of Vonnegut's place in American writing.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“Mr. Palahniuk doesn't write for tourists. He writes for hard-core devotees drawn to the wild, angry imagination on display and the taboo-busting humor.”
—The New York Times

“Unpredictably hilarious. . . . The writing is vivid, raw, and mordantly knowing.”
—Chicago Sun-Times

“Truly unique. He writes at the edge of crazy, and you can feel his desperate urge to get at the truth of things.”
—The Seattle Times

“Twisted? Come on, it's Palahniuk. Impossible to put down? Same answer.”
—Men's Journal

“It's a rare novel that's as funny and as brain-bending as this one. Buckle up.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“A white-knuckled what-if, Rant is the author's most idiosyncratic work to date.”
—The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

“A strong dose of gore and sinewy prose.”
—Time Out New York

“So funny that your facial muscles soon tire.”
—The Guardian
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

CHUCK PALAHNIUK is the bestselling author of seven novels: Fight Club—which was made into a film by director David Fincher—Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, and Haunted. He is also the author of the nonfiction profile of Portland, Fugitives and Refugees, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. More than 3 million copies of his book have been sold. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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• Editore: Random House LCC US
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0307388891
• ISBN 13: 9780307388896
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 318