- MP3 CD
- Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks; MP3 Una edition (May 1 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1441735097
- ISBN-13: 978-1441735096
- Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 91 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,506,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"America's most famous writer of transgressive fiction . . . Chuck Palahniuk has a habit noticing things in the margins that the rest of us might overlook. . . . A dark, funny tale of a vintage Hollywood. . . . Dark, occasionally violent and always irreverent, the book suggests that Hollywood in the golden days was just as shallow, self-obsessed and inane
as it is today."
--Edmonton Journal
From the Hardcover edition. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Book Description
"Tell-All" is many things: a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when grand dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. It is a Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama full of big gestures and muted psychic torment. It is a veritable Tourette's Syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list. It is a merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman's habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond. Our narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine 'Miss Kathie' Kenton, a star of the wattage of Elizabeth Taylor and the emotional torments of Judy Garland. The survivor of multiple marriages, career comebacks and cosmetic surgeries, Miss Kathie lives the way legends should. But danger lurks when gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III arrives and worms his way into Miss Kathie's heart and boudoir. Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written his celebrity tell-all memoir and that it foretells her death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman-penned World War II musical extravaganza "Unconditional Surrender", in which Miss Kathie portrays Lily defeating Japanese forces from Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki. As the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans - and for posterity. A dark reimagining of "All About Eve" and an hilarious assault on celebrity, "Tell-All" is vintage Palahniuk.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
INVENTIVE, UNPREDICTABLE, FUNNY! AUDIO REVIEW,
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This review is from: Tell-All (Audio CD)
While voice performer Hillary Huber records for a number of major publishers this listener is delighted that Blackstone signed her on for TELL-ALL. She delivers a controlled, easy listening narration - "controlled" is not easy to do when the author is Chuck Palahniuk Those who have read or heard his previous works (Pygmy, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, to mention a few) know he's one of the most inventive authors working today - unpredictable, ambitious in subject matter, funny, and impossible to pinpoint.TELL-ALL has been likened by someone as a cross between Page Six and Sunset Boulevard. Palahniuk takes on celebrity - how it is perceived, what it is. He gives us a cast of multitudes headed by Katherine Kenton, an aging but not about to give up movie star and Hazie Coogan who has long been her servant, protector, flunky, and major-domo seeing to whatever Miss Kathie needs through her numerous love affairs, and major movie moments. The alcohol imbibing sexually rapacious star is adored by her public who see only the image presented to them. Webster Carlton Westward III, one more suitor, soon appears and has little trouble in winning over Miss Kathie but he has an agenda of his own. He has already penned a tell-all memoir of their affair with a fatally unhappy ending. Another challenge for Hazie Rife with gossip and enough name dropping to satisfy the most celebrity hungry fan TELL-ALL is a riff on old Hollywood. It's pure Palahniuk. Enjoy - Gail Cooke
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not the Palahniuk of old,
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This review is from: Tell-All (Hardcover)
As an avid fan of Chuck Palahniuk and all of his work I have to say this book left me wondering what has happened to him? It's less than 200 pages and is predictable like none other of his works. The aspect of his writing I appreciate the most is the twists, the turns, the ability to take a story far beyond where the average mind is capable of imagining... in short Tell-All was not one of those books. This is a collection of Bold Faced name dropping amungst words that somehow form a sentence, and is really hard to read. More difficult even than Pygmy(and that was a struggle!) Having recently reread Choke, my favorite of all his novels I must say I miss the Palahniuk of old.
5.0 out of 5 stars
happy!,
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This review is from: Tell-All (Hardcover)
The item i chose arrived really fast and in perfect condition. I am always satisfied with amazon.ca! I would recommend it in a heartbeat.
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