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Rant

An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

by Chuck Palahniuk

ISBN: 0385517874
ISBN-13: 9780385517874
Format: Hardcover

Summary

Shock novelist and scathingly satiric social commentator Chuck Palahniuk (FIGHT CLUB) gives his twisted take on the oral biography, using multiple first-person accounts to tell the short and brutish life story of Buster "Rant" Casey, a serial killing teenager who intentionally contracts rabies in order to spread the disease. Set in a dystopic future, laced with dark religious overtones, and filled with amphetamine-high humor, RANT will delight Palahniuk's fans and disturb those new to his gleefully bleak vision.

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"Viciously incisive and lethally funny social commentary....Not for everyone, but readers who like to walk on the novelist's wild side will rave." (starred review)

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Doubleday
Published date: 2007
Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 1.05 pounds
Pages: 320

Publisher's Notes

Based on the reminiscences of his three friends following Casey's spectacular death, a fictional oral biography of Buster "Rant" Casey" chronicles the violent world of a small-town rebel who heads for the big city to become the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing, as well as rumors that his saliva infected hundreds with a plague of rabies. 125,000 first printing.

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