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Todos los fines de semana, en sótanos y aparcamientos a lo largo y ancho del país, jóvenes oficinistas se quitan los zapatos y las camisas y pelean entre sí hasta la extenuación. Los lunes regresan a sus despachos, con los ojos amoratados, algun diente de menos y un sentimiento embriagador de omnipotencia. Estas reuniones clandestinas son parte del plan con el que Tyler Durden, proyeccionista, camarero y oscuro genio anarquico, aspira a vengarse de una sociedad enferma por el consumismo exacerbado.

El autor de la celebrada El club de la lucha describe la extraña convivencia en una residencia de escritores. Allí han acudido un variopinto grupo de personas decididas a crear sus historias en un marco de tranquilidad y aislamiento. Pero en esa residencia la vida es demasiado espartana, tanto que todos comienzan a escribir terrorificas historias, a la vez que se convierten en personajes de un especial reality show. Un homenaje a los clasicos del terror, una satira poderosa.

L'un se nomme Saint Descente de Boyaux, l'autre Dame Clocharde, un autre encore Duc des Vandales. Ainsi de suite jusqu'à l'Agent Cafteur et le Chaînon Manquant. En tout une vingtaine de volontaires ayant quitté abruptement le quotidien sans laisser la moindre trace. L'annonce, discrète dans le journal, leur promettait de se retrouver au secret, sans contact avec l'extérieur, afin d'accoucher enfin du chef-d'œuvre qu'ils portaient en eux. Ce qui était censé être un refuge se révélera un imparable piège. Les mêmes qui affirmaient venir pour écrire avaient tous besoin, pour de multiples raisons plus inavouables les unes que les autres, de fuir la justice et les hommes. Tous à la fin - ou presque ! - auront en effet une histoire à raconter. Ce ne sera certainement pas celle à la • laquelle ils pensaient.

RANT takes the form of an oral history of one Buster 'Rant' Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, admirers, detractors and relations have their say on this (in Chuck Palahniuk's words) 'evil, gender-conflicted Forrest Gump character'. Buster Casey was every small kid born into a small town, searching for real thrills in a world of video games and action/adventure movies. Anyone who's ever kissed him would do well to seek treatment, for his recreational drug of choice is rabies and he gets bitten by black widow spiders for the priapic effect of their venom. The high school rebel who wins, Rant Casey escapes from his hometown of Middleton for the big city, where he becomes a leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing, where on designated nights, the participants recognise each other by dressing their cars with tin-can tails and 'Just Married' toothpaste graffiti. Or, with 'forgotten' coffee mugs bolted to their car roofs or Christmas trees tied from bumper to bumper. During specific windows of time, in limited areas of the city, Party Crashers look for the designated markings in order to stalk and crash into each other. It's in this violent, late-night hunting game that Casey meets three friends. And after his spectacular death, these friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short life. Their collected anecdotes explore the charges that his saliva infected hundreds and caused a silent, urban plague of rabies. But it's a plague that liberates his peers from being stuck in only one boring track through history… Expect hilarity, horror and blazing insight into the desperate and surreal contemporary human condition as only Chuck Palahniuk can deliver it. He's the post-millennial Jonathan Swift, the man to watch to learn what's - uh-oh - coming next.

#No hay veces en que desear#as no haber nacido? Buster Casey fue un asesino. Vivi# al l#mite. Mat# a tanta gente como pudo. Buster Casey fue el l#der de una banda que se dedicaba a estrellar coches y acumular cad#veres y chatarra. Toda una fiesta. Buster Casey muri# joven, y dej# huella. Ahora sus amigos y conocidos le recuerdan, nos cuentan su vida. Si quieres saber qui#n fue realmente Buster Casey, lee esta novela. Puede que te divierta, puede que te repugne, pero dif#cilmente olvidar#s las iniciales B.C. y su rostro de asesino. Rese#a:"Exceder# tu dosis semanal de humor y humanidad, de agudeza y atrocidad."The Washington Post

Rant is the oral history of one Buster Rant Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, detractors, lovers and relations have their say on the man who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time. Rant is a darkly glittering anti-hero whose recreational drug of choice is rabies, and whose own personal Viagra is the venom of a black widow spider. He soon leaves his half-feral hometown for the big city, where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On designated nights, the Party Crashers chase each other in cars in the hope of a collision, and all the while Rant, the ''superspreader'', transmits his lethal disease...

Buster ''Rant'' Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant casey escapes from his small home town for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will ...Viciously incisive and lethally funny social commentary in a novel cast as an oral biography.Palahniuk''s latest (Haunted, 2005, etc.) provides a parody of the oral biography format (Edie, Capote), offers homage to both James Dean and J.G. Ballard''s Crash and serves to show just how much teenage angst has degenerated since the innocence of Holden Caulfieldall this before a time-warped finale that ... Mas turns genealogy into some sort of Mobius strip. Though his voice appears minimally in the narrative, the hero (or is he?) of the novel is Buster (or Buddy) "Rant" Casey, who lives a short life of escalating destruction just to be able to do something, feel something and escape from the rural town that is living death to those who don''t manage to leave it. A boy of peculiarly (even mystically) sensual intuition, he initially amuses himself by seeking bites from various animals and insects, launching a rabies epidemic as he passes his infections along through sexual encounters. With his move to the bigger city, he attracts a posse of "Party Crashers," joy riders who spend their evenings in wedding attire crashing into each others'' vehicles. One crash kills Rant, who is dead (or is he?) as the novel begins and is eulogized by a Greek chorus of friends, neighbors, relatives and enemies, along with an eyewitness reporter for DRVR Radio Graphic Traffic and an historian whose involvement in the proceedings sustains a mystery through much of the novel. Many of the themes in the author''s exploration of the dark underbelly of modern life and culture will be familiar to his ardent fans, but the formal inventiveness of the fictional oral biography provides a fresh twist.Not for everyone, but readers who like to walk on the novelist''s wild side will rave.

A billion husbands are about to be replaced.From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more...Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka ''Climax-Well'', a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan''s most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed of heights of orgasmic pleasure for days on end. What''s not to like?This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of sex toys to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called ''Beautiful You''. So potent and effective are these devices that women line up in their millions outside the stores on opening day then lock themselves in their room and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell''s plan for erotically enabled world domination must be stopped. But how?

Sa mort et son arrivée aux enfers, Madison, treize ans, les prend sereinement. Le seul souci pour elle, c''est de ne pas savoir exactement ce qui lui est arrivé. Pour cette fille moche mais intellig

From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more...Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka 'Climax-Well', a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed of heights of orgasmic pleasure for days on end. What's not to like? This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of sex toys to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called 'Beautiful You'. So potent and effective are these devices that women line up in their millions outside the stores on opening day then lock themselves in their room and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell's plan for erotically enabled world domination must be stopped. But how?

Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm. She has an apartment, but no love life. When C. Linus Maxwell, a mega-billionaire and international playboy, invites her to dinner and then whisks her off to a hotel in Paris, where he brings her to undreamed-of heights of sexual gratification for days on end, Penny is, well, pleased. However, when Penny discovers she is a test subject for a line of female sex toys so effective that women by the millions are lining up outside the stores to buy it on opening day, she understands the gravity the situation. A billion husbands are about to be replaced. What is Maxwell really up to? Erotically enabled world domination? Penny sets out to discover his motivations, and with a little help, stop him before it is too late.

Were Breaking the First Rule of Fight Club For a Good Reason.Dark Horse is proud to announce that Fight Club 2 is the number-one hardcover graphic novel on the New York Times best-seller list. Written by novelist Chuck Palahniuk, illustrated by Eisner Award-winning artist Cameron Stewart, lettered by Nate Piekos of Blambot, colored by award winner Dave Stewart, and featuring a cover by David Mack, Fight Club 2 is Palahniuks first foray into comic book writing and his first New York Times best-seller.Palahniuk expressed gratitude for his faithful fans. Hitting NUMBER ONE has never been my goal, but its a beautiful, unexpected gift from so many of the readers Im meeting on tour. Thank you. Tyler lives!Set ten years after the events of Fight Club, Fight Club 2 finds Sebastian living a mundane life and still in a dysfunctional relationship with Marla. The sequel explores Sebastians struggles to restrain Tyler Durden in his subconscious. Unfortunately, Sebastians life is turned upside down when Tyler re-emerges to create chaos.

Stories you'll never forgetjust tryfrom literature's favorite transgressive author Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. In "Expedition," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precusor story to Fight Club. And in other stories, the absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In "Knock, Knock," a son hopes to tell one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments, while in "Tunnel of Love," a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing 'relief' to dying clients. Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant; these stories represent everything readers have come to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk.

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.