Pygmy
by Palahniuk, Chuck
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Canada: Doubleday, 2009 A Nice Tight Clean Book, Signed By Author On Half Title Page, Otherwise Unmarked. Black Hard Covers With Silver Gilt Tiles On Spine And Silver Gilt Image Of Man From The Jacket On The Front Board. Yellow And Red Dj , Not Price Clipped And No Apparent Wear. In Excellent Condition.
Synopsis
The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park--Chuck Palahniuk's finest novel since the generation-defining Fight Club."Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc."Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates us with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of an American xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified. For Pygmy and his fellow operatives are cooking up something big, something truly awful, that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees.It's a comedy. And a romance.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Westside Stories
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 904597
- Title
- Pygmy
- Author
- Palahniuk, Chuck
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Canada
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Pygmy Palahniuk Fiction
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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About Westside Stories
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- Gilt
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- Title Page
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- Tight
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Price Clipped
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- Jacket
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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