Official Description For "Tell All", Chuck's Next Novel, Now Up On Amazon!
The official description for Tell All, Chuck Palahniuk's upcoming novel (May 3, 2010), is now up on Amazon:
The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Even Kitty Kelly will blush.
Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard–inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Tourette’s syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list; and a merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman’s habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond.
Our Thelma Ritter–ish narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine “Miss Kathie” Kenton—veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie’s heart (and boudoir). Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathie’s death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman–penned musical extravaganza; as the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans—and for posterity.
Tell-All is funny, subversive, and fascinatingly clever. It’s wild, it’s wicked, it’s bold-faced—it’s vintage Chuck.
Props to Andy for spotting this and emailing us about it.
Pre-order Tell All from Amazon now!
Comments
counting the days!!
Really? I mean, REALLY?
i read the description and just went, WHAT?
I have no idea what it's going to be like. Like, it seems almost ridiculous. I don't know, it does sound better than snuff though.
I have no idea what it's going to be like. Like, it seems almost ridiculous. I don't know, it does sound better than snuff though.
a book of Mad Libs that hasn't been filled out would be better than Snuff.
I'll be getting this one and actually reading it. It doesn't sound like anything I would be interested in really, but that's what gives me some hope for it. I can see Chuck pulling one off where the topic seems kind of odd and makes you go WTF? and it turning out to be a good, interesting and funny read.
sounds unique and funny. love all those old stars and the setting.
I'm soooo excited! I don't know what to make of the description, but I never really do with Chuck's novels. He always gives me something I didn't expect. But it's usually awesome =D
cant wait
The description is a little confusing, tries a little too hard, but I am so there to read it. I enjoyed Rant and Pygymy so much.
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