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By the Author of Fight Club

About the Author

Chuck Palahniuk is the author of fourteen best-selling novels - Beautiful You, Doomed, Damned, Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Diary, Lullaby, Choke, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, and Fight Club. He is also the author of Fugitives and Refugees and the non-fiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. Visit him on the web at chuckpalahniuk.net.

Reviews

Here's a writer whose life looks a lot like his fiction
*New York Times Book Review*

Maybe our generation has found it's Don DeLillo
*Brett Easton Ellis*

A wonderful writer
*The Face*

Palahniuk is one of the freshest, most intriguing voices to appear in a long time
*New York Newsday*

In the "Crown Journeys" series, which features established authors writing about a specific place, the author's style and attitude are often easily recognizable. Here, novelist Palahniuk relates his experiences and thoughts on living in the Rose City, and if you are familiar with his novels (e.g., Choke), you will know what to expect-a description of the dark underside of Portland, not something that is promoted by the local chamber of commerce. Palahniuk tells us where to find ghosts, strange museums, used goods, and sex for sale; describes unique restaurants (with some recipes) and other exotic tourist attractions; and throughout intersperses vignettes called postcards to keep with the travel theme. The book is a quick and entertaining read but will not appeal to everyone. Recommended only for public and academic libraries in Oregon and those where Palahniuk's novels have been popular. [Previous titles in the series include Michael Cunningham's Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown and Christopher Buckley's Washington Schlepped Here: Walking in the Nation's Capital.-Ed.]-John McCormick, New Hampshire State Lib., Concord Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Here's a writer whose life looks a lot like his fiction * New York Times Book Review *
Maybe our generation has found it's Don DeLillo * Brett Easton Ellis *
A wonderful writer * The Face *
Palahniuk is one of the freshest, most intriguing voices to appear in a long time * New York Newsday *