In 2004, Chuck Palahniuk began submitting essays to the site www.chuckpalahniuk.net on writing. These were 'How To' pieces. craft essays, straight out of Chuck's own personal toolbox. В 2004 Чак Паланик начал выкладывать на сайт www.chuckpalahniuk.net свои эссе по писательскому мастерству. Это были эссе типа "как это сделать", прямиком из личного инструментария Паланика. В...
In 2004, Chuck Palahniuk began submitting essays to the site www.chuckpalahniuk.net on writing. These were 'How To' pieces. craft essays, straight out of Chuck's own personal toolbox. В 2004 Чак Паланик начал выкладывать на сайт www.chuckpalahniuk.net свои эссе по писательскому мастерству. Это были эссе типа "как это сделать", прямиком из личного инструментария Паланика. В...
Victor Mancini's a medical school dropout with a problem. He needs to pay for elder care for his mother, who's got Alzheimer's. So he comes up with the perfect scam: pretending to choke in upscale restaurants and getting saved by fellow diners who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, offer him financial support.Meanwhile, he cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops and...
Роман «Проклятая» был написан в 2011 году и был опубликован «Jonathan Cape» 1 сентября 2011 года, а «Doubleday» 18 октября. Паланик сказал, что роман был написан, как способ борьбы со смертью его матери от рака груди в 2009 году. Произведение было основано на структуре романа «Ты здесь, Бог? Это я, Маргарет» американской писательницы Джуди Блум, главной героиней которого тоже...
Роман «Проклятая» был написан в 2011 году и был опубликован «Jonathan Cape» 1 сентября 2011 года, а «Doubleday» 18 октября. Паланик сказал, что роман был написан, как способ борьбы со смертью его матери от рака груди в 2009 году. Произведение было основано на структуре романа «Ты здесь, Бог? Это я, Маргарет» американской писательницы Джуди Блум, главной героиней которого тоже...
Книга на английском языке. PDF. ISBN: 0385509472 Doubleday August, 2003. Admittedly, the eclectic and often brilliant author made famous by Fight Club is stretching creatively but with mixed results. For the first time since his first novel, Invisible Monsters, he is writing in a woman's voice, albeit the obsessed and borderline deranged voice of his "heroine." However, the...
Культовый роман "короля антикультуры" наделал много шума, особенно после выхода одноименного фильма. Но для тех, кто владеет английским языком, будет интересно прочитать роман в оригинале, тем более что существующие переводы оставляют желать лучшего.
The only person who gets called Ballardesque more often than Chuck Palahniuk is, well. J.G. Ballard. So, does Portland, Oregon's "torchbearer for the nihilistic generation" deserve that kind of treatment? Yes and no. There is a resemblance between Fight Club and works such as Crash and Cocaine Nights in that both see the innocuous mundanities of everyday life as nothing more than...
The only person who gets called Ballardesque more often than Chuck Palahniuk is, well. J.G. Ballard. So, does Portland, Oregon's "torchbearer for the nihilistic generation" deserve that kind of treatment? Yes and no. There is a resemblance between Fight Club and works such as Crash and Cocaine Nights in that both see the innocuous mundanities of everyday life as nothing more than...
Graphic Novel, 2015 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. He’s back where he started, but this go-round he’s got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived...Collects issues #1–#10 of the series.
Graphic Novel, 2015 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. He’s back where he started, but this go-round he’s got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived...Collects issues #1–#10 of the series.
Graphic Novel, 2015 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. He’s back where he started, but this go-round he’s got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived...Collects issues #1–#10 of the series.
Graphic Novel, 2015 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. He’s back where he started, but this go-round he’s got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived...Collects issues #1–#10 of the series.
Graphic Novel, 2015 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. He’s back where he started, but this go-round he’s got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived...Collects issues #1–#10 of the series.
Graphic Novel, 2015 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. He’s back where he started, but this go-round he’s got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived...Collects issues #1–#10 of the series.
Graphic Novel, 2015 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. He’s back where he started, but this go-round he’s got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived...Collects issues #1–#10 of the series.
Graphic Novel, 2015 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. He’s back where he started, but this go-round he’s got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived...Collects issues #1–#10 of the series.
Graphic Novel, 2015 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. He’s back where he started, but this go-round he’s got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived...Collects issues #1–#10 of the series.
Graphic Novel, 2015 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. He’s back where he started, but this go-round he’s got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived...Collects issues #1–#10 of the series.
Graphic Novel, 2019 This new installment will see the story's central character Tyler Durden dealing with impending fatherhood as, when the story begins, Marla is pregnant with his child. Add to that the threat of a new enemy and the sequel will see Tyler teaming up with the series narrator -- who is now calling himself Balthazar.
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...
The fashion-model protagonist of Invisible Monsters has just about everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But one day she's driving along the freeway when a sudden "accident" leaves her with half her face, no ability to speak, and next to no self-esteem. From being the beautiful center of attention she becomes an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will...
Lullaby is a horror-satire novel by American author Chuck Palahniuk, published in 2002. It won the 2003 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 2002.
Lullaby uses a framing device, alternating between the normal, linear narrative and the temporal end after every few chapters. Palahniuk often uses this format...
Reporter Carl Streator discovers the song’s lethal nature while researching Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and before he knows it, he’s reciting the poem to anyone who bothers him. As the body count rises, Streator glimpses the potential catastrophe if someone truly malicious finds out about the song. The only answer is to find and destroy every copy of the book in the country....
Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 401 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-2143-9 Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their Grandfather...and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it’s not so easy to continue the family...
Rant is the oral history of one Buster 'Rant ' Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, detractors, lovers and relations have their say on the man who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time. Rant is a darkly glittering anti-hero whose recreational drug of choice is rabies, and whose own personal Viagra is the venom of a black widow spider. He...
Rant is the oral history of one Buster 'Rant ' Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, detractors, lovers and relations have their say on the man who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time. Rant is a darkly glittering anti-hero whose recreational drug of choice is rabies, and whose own personal Viagra is the venom of a black widow spider. He soon...
From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before
Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600, who await...
Palahniuk's ninth novel tells the story of Cassie Wright, an aging porn star who intends to put an exclamation point on her career by having sex with 600 men in one day on film. The story begins with Mr. 600—the pornosaur who introduced Cassie to the business—as he describes the other 599 actors awaiting their moment on screen. The perspective then shifts to Mr. 72, an adopted...
Anchor, 2009. — 118 p.
Palahniuk's ninth novel tells the story of Cassie Wright, an aging porn star who intends to put an exclamation point on her career by having sex with 600 men in one day on film. The story begins with Mr. 600—the pornosaur who introduced Cassie to the business—as he describes the other 599 actors awaiting their moment on screen. The perspective then shifts...
New York: Doubleday, 2004. — 233 p. Фантастичнее Вымысла (англ. Stranger Than Fiction) — первая и единственная книга писателя-сатирика Чака Паланика в жанре нон-фикшн. Книга состоит из трех разделов: Все люди вместе, Портреты, Личное. Каждый раздел книги, в свою очередь, состоит из цикла историй, связанных темой раздела.
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...
Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. These pieces from Stranger Than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, 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...
Tender Branson—last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into Flight 2039’s recorder. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. But before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah. Unpredictable...
95 стр., 2010, Doubleday, Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Boy Meets Girl. Boy Gets Girl. Boy Kills Girl. Tell-All is a funny, subversive, and fascinatingly clever novel.
Книга Чака Паланика "Пигмей" на английском языке. Полный текст для людей с продвинутым уровнем английского. 85 страниц, ненормативная лексика на английском языке.
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