Stranger Than Fiction
About this book
From the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary, a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that prove that real life has imagination beaten cold in the strangeness and wonder departmentsChuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise 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 production of the movie Fight Club; life as an assembly-line drive train installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world (and mangled ears) of college wrestlers; the underground world of iron-pumping anabolic steroid gobblers; the immensely upsetting circumstances of his father's murder and the trial of his killer--each essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and/or observed by one of our most flagrantly daring and original literary talents.
Reader Profile
3.6/5 · 23120 readers · 256 pages · ≈ 4 h 44 m · Challenging
How long does it take to read Stranger Than Fiction?
About ≈ 4 h 44 m — 256 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Stranger Than Fiction?
256 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Stranger Than Fiction?
It sits on the Essays, History shelves.
Is Stranger Than Fiction in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Stranger Than Fiction?
Chuck Palahniuk.