Haunted: A Novel of Stories
by Chuck Palahniuk
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385509480
- ISBN 13
- 9780385509480
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About This Item
White and gray boards with silver writing on spine; paper on back board slightly warped at top. Cover of dust jacket has area in top right corner where sheen has rubbed off. Tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition. Cover price of $24.95. First Edition; First Printing as indicated by "First Edition" and complete number line on copyright page. Author of "Fight Club", this is Palahniuk's ninth book, a collection of stories and poems. Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
Synopsis
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter--sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined "Writers' Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months," and who are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of "real life" that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But "here" turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside world--and where heat and power and, most important, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more extreme the stories they tell--and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/nonfiction blockbuster that will surely be made from their plight.Haunted is on one level a satire of reality television--The Real World meets Alive. It draws from a great literary tradition--The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, the English storytellers in the Villa Diodati who produced, among other works, Frankenstein--to tell an utterly contemporary tale of people desperate that their story be told at any cost. Appallingly entertaining, Haunted is Chuck Palahniuk at his finest--which means his most extreme and his most provocative.
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- Sherlock Joe's Book Hunting (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PHK005
- Title
- Haunted: A Novel of Stories
- Author
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385509480
- ISBN 13
- 9780385509480
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- May 3, 2005
- Pages
- 406
- Keywords
- palahniuk; haunted; collection
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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