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The 2009 Award

 

Rant

Rant

by Chuck Palahniuk

 

 

 

Nominated by:

  • Stockholm Public Library, Sweden
  • Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli/Biblioteca Nazionale "Vitt.Em.111" Napoli, Italy

Publisher of Nominated Edition:

Doubleday USA

 

the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors
ABOUT THE BOOK

Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. With hilarity, horror, and blazing insight, Rant is a mind-bending vision of the future, as only Chuck Palahniuk could ever imagine.

(From Publisher).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Chuck Palahniuk's seven novels are the bestselling Haunted, Lullaby, Fight Club (which was made into a film by director David Fincher), Diary, Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Choke. He is also the author of the nonfiction profile of Portland, Fugitives and Refugees, published as part of the Crown Journeys series, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

LIBRARIAN'S COMMENTS

A rabid grotesquery. Even though: this is a veritable masterpiece a morality play on life of today.

 

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