Book description
'Every word he's written about me is a lie including "and"
and "the"...'
For decades Hazie Coogan 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...
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.
