![]() ![]() ![]() With that slightly enervating capacity for inventing conspiracy theories that has seen him become the favourite novelist of the foil-hatted classes, Palahniuk posits that the casus belli has been confected by American politicians in order to cull the worryingly large numbers of young men who are going around expecting more from life than late capitalism can provide. His 16th novel begins with war imminent in the Middle East and a compulsory draft about to be introduced. Palahniuk's depiction of modern men may be short on nuance but, like many satirists, his humour expresses a genuine anger, and that gives his books a crackling energy that is some compensation for their lack of subtlety. ![]() ![]() Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. But if you want to know how he views himself – if you want to read the sort of novel that he might write, with himself as the hero – then Chuck Palahniuk is your man.įrom his first book, Fight Club (1996), Palahniuk has spoken up for the beleaguered American male: the guy who feels that his masculinity is compromised in our feminised, risk-averse world, and that his well-being is ignored by politicians in thrall to political correctness, and so has been humiliatingly forced to adopt the victim mentality he despises in women and minorities. Adjustment Day By: Chuck Palahniuk Narrated by: Christopher Ragland Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins 3.3 (15 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. If you want to know what an ordinary white American man is like, you can read, say, John Updike's novels about Harry Angstrom. ![]()
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