FIGHT CLUB by CHUCK PALAHNIUK

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FIGHT CLUB by CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage Books USA (May 1, 2006)
ISBN-10: 0099765217
ISBN-13: 978-0099765219
Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.6 inches

Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Condition: Excellent for a used book

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(synopsis)

Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic genius. And it's only the beginning of his plans for revenge on a world where cancer support groups have the corner on human warmth.

Amazon.com Review

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 severely loosened cap on a seething underworld cauldron of unchecked impulse and social atrocity. Welcome to the present-day U.S. of A. As Ballard's characters get their jollies from staging automobile accidents, Palahniuk's yuppies unwind from a day at the office by organizing bloodsport rings and selling soap to fund anarchist overthrows. Let's just say that neither of these guys are going to be called in to do a Full House script rewrite any time soon.

But while the ingredients are the same, Ballard and Palahniuk bake at completely different temperatures. Unlike his British counterpart, who tends to cast his American protagonists in a chilly light, holding them close enough to dissect but far enough away to eliminate any possibility of kinship, Palahniuk isn't happy unless he's first-person front and center, completely entangled in the whole sordid mess. An intensely psychological novel that never runs the risk of becoming clinical, Fight Club is about both the dangers of loyalty and the dreaded weight of leadership, the desire to band together and the compulsion to head for the hills. In short, it's about the pride and horror of being an American, rendered in lethally swift prose. Fight Club's protagonist might occasionally become foggy about who he truly is (you'll see what I mean), but one thing is for certain: you're not likely to forget the book's author. Never mind Ballardesque. Palahniukian here we come! --Bob Michaels --

Biography

Chuck Palahniuk's novels are the bestselling Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher, Diary, Lullaby, Survivor, Haunted, and Invisible Monsters. Portions of Choke have appeared in Playboy, and Palahniuk's nonfiction work has been published by Gear, Black Book, The Stranger, and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

ROBERTO BOLANO'S Woes of the True Policeman

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ROBERTO BOLANO'S Woes of the True Policeman

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Picador; Open market edition (January 17, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1447234588
ISBN-13: 978-1447234586
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9.3 inches

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When Oscar Amalfitano begins an impulsive affair with one of his students at the University of Barcelona, he has no idea where it will lead. More than his turbulent revolutionary past, or the death of his beautiful wife, the scandalous exposure of this relationship will change him for ever. Forced to flee with his seventeen-year-old daughter, Amalfitano finds himself in Santa Teresa, a sprawling town on the US-Mexico border. Haunted by dark tales of murdered women, this mythical place is populated by mysterious characters. We meet Castillo, who makes his living selling his forgeries of Larry Rivers paintings to wealthy Texans; Pancho Monje, a son born of six generations of foundlings; and Arcimboldi, a magician and writer whose work has been important to Amalfitano for some time, but whose return to prominence is just beginning.

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Editorial Review

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Yet another posthumous, unfinished novel by literary giant Bolaño has surfaced, though it’s said this will be the last. While it is no Savage Detectives (1998; tr. 2007), 2666 (2004; tr. 2008), nor many others, Bolaño fans, and there are many, will have no trouble delving right in to once again devour the master linguist’s every word. The story, about a Chilean professor, Amalfitano, forced to flee Barcelona with his daughter to Mexico due to scandal, uses character names and themes from Bolaño’s previous novels and therefore feels somewhat familiar. Still, this is far from table scraps. The work may be incomplete, but Bolaño, periodically tinkering on the novel from the 1980s until his death, in 2003, had nearly created a fully realized world, one begging to be further fleshed out. But even in an unpolished manuscript, his capacity for spinning out pages-long sentences using language in new and surprising ways shows that this is quintessential Bolaño. For writers, the various stages of completion wonderfully illustrate Bolaño’s creative process. With more time alive, Bolaño could have made this another treasure of world literature. --Casey Bayer

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'Hallucinatory, manic, fearful, comic ... Bolano must be read by anyone who loves the novel' Herald 'There is a power in these pages that very few writers ever achieve' Scotsman 'A further demonstration of Bolano's profound capacity to inhabit a seemingly limitless variety of perspectives with humor and empathy ... an event of language and devilish wit' Wall Street Journal

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About the Author

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. He is the author of The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.

ROBERTO BOLANO'S THE SKATING RINK

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ROBERTO BOLANO'S THE SKATING RINK

Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Picador USA (June 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0330510533
ISBN-13: 978-0330510530
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.7 x 7.8 inches

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When Nuria Marti, the beautiful Spanish figure skater, is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old mansion on the outskirts of their seaside town. What he doesn't tell her is that he paid for it using embezzled public funds. Such deceit is not without repercussions, and the skating rink soon becomes a crime scene ...Rife with political corruption, sex, jealousy and frustrated passion, The Skating Rink -- narrated in turn by a corrupt and pompous civil servant, a beleaguered romantic poet, and a duplicitous local entrepreneur -- is a darkly atmospheric tale of murder and its motives.

Review

''There is much intensity at work, although 'The Skating Rink' leavens the melancholy of exile with an interest in the uncanny and a knack for the surrealist image.'' --Siddhartha Deb - Times Literary Supplement

''Exquisite . . . another unlikely masterpiece, as sui generis as all his books so far. The Skating Rinkmanages to honor genre conventions while simultaneously exploding them, creating a work of intense and unrealized longing.'' --Wyatt Mason - The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His novel, The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times Book Review. His posthumous masterpiece, 2666, won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA'S AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER

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MARIO VARGAS LLOSA'S AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER

Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Faber Faber Inc (2002 ed.)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0571167772
ISBN-13: 978-0571167777
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.9 x 7.8 inches 

Amazon rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Explores the tragicomic relationship between two artists and their material. While each feeds off the other, the narratives of Mario are nourished by the life around him, those of Camacho by the fantasies engendered by his disintegrating mind. The author's other works include "The Storyteller".

Biography

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1936. In 1958 he earned a scholarship to study in Madrid, and later he lived in Paris. His first story collection, The Cubs and Other Stories, was published in 1959. Vargas Llosa's reputation grew with the publication in 1963 of The Time of the Hero, a controversial novel about the politics of his country. The Peruvian military burned a thousand copies of the book. He continued to live abroad until 1980, returning to Lima just before the restoration of democratic rule.

ORHAN PAMUK'S THE WHITE CASTLE

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ORHAN PAMUK'S THE WHITE CASTLE

Paperback – January 1, 2009

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Paperback: 145 pages
Publisher: Faber & Faber (January 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0571244777
ISBN-13: 978-0571244775
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.4 x 7.8 inches
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THE WHITE CASTLE, ORHAN PAMUK S CELEBRATED FIRST NOVEL, IS THE TALE OF A YOUNG ITALIAN SCHOLAR CAPTURED BY PIRATES AND PUT UP FOR AUCTION AT THE ISTANBUL SLAVE MARKET. ACQUIRED BY A BRILLIANT TURKISH INVENTOR, HE IS SET TO WORK ON PROJECTS TO ENTERTAIN THE JADED SULTAN.

Biography

Orhan Pamuk, described as 'one of the freshest, most original voices in contemporary fiction' (Independent on Sunday), is the author of many books, including The White Castle, The Black Book and The New Life. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name is Red, and in 2004 Faber published the translation of his novel Snow, which The Times described as 'a novel of profound relevance to the present moment'. His most recent book was Istanbul, described by Jan Morris as 'irresistibly seductive'. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. He lives in Istanbul.

HOWARD JACOBSON'S ZOO TIME

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HOWARD JACOBSON'S ZOO TIME

Paperback – International Edition, May 16, 2013

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Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Export - OME edition (May 16, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1408837443
Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 1.2 x 7 inches

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(Synopsis)

Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence that destroys Guy's peace of mind, suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them. Not that anyone reads Guy, anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the meantime, is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesn't expect her to finish it, or even start it, but he dreads the consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment and universal despair, Guy wonders if it's time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead, but desire isn't. And out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book. By turns angry, elegiac and rude, Zoo Time is a novel about love - love of women, love of literature, love of laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his brilliant best.

About the author:

An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, brought up in Prestwich and was educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied under F. R. Leavis. He lectured for three years at the University of Sydney before returning to teach at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Kalooki Nights (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and, most recently, the highly acclaimed The Act of Love. Howard Jacobson lives in London.

T.C BOYLE'S WHEN THE KILLING IS DONE

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T.C BOYLE'S WHEN THE KILLING IS DONE 

Paperback – International Edition, March 1, 2012

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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK (March 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1408821702
ISBN-13: 978-1408821701
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.3 x 7.8 inches
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The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd Takesue of the National Park Service is campaigning to exterminate them once and for all, but her systematic plan is in danger of sabotage by two notorious environmental activists, Anise Reed and Dave LaJoy. But when Alma's sights turn to the infestation of non-native pigs on the island of Santa Cruz - where Anise was brought up by her rancher mother - the stakes are raised and the debate threatens to boil over into something much more real...

About the Author:

T. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including World's End (winner of the PEN/FaulknerAward), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His most recent story collections are Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories.