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2009 Nominated

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

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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.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Chuck
Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk’s eleven previous novels are the bestselling Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Lullaby, Diary, Choke – which has been made into a film by director Clark Gregg, starring Sam
Rockwell and Anjelica Huston – Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher. He is also the author of the nonfiction profile of Portland, Oregon, Fugitives and Refugees, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Chuck Palahniuk’s eleven previous novels are the bestselling Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Lullaby, Diary, Choke – which has been made into a film by director Clark Gregg, starring Sam
Rockwell and Anjelica Huston – Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher. He is also the author of the nonfiction profile of Portland, Oregon, Fugitives and Refugees, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

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

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United States
Original Language
English
Publisher
Doubleday (USA)

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