Book description
Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk's tonsils currently reside?
Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets?
What goes on at the Scum Center?
How do you get to the Apocalypse Cafe?
In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck
Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes
you through the streets, sewers, and local haunts of Portland, Oregon.
According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love,
Portland is the home of America's "fugitives and refugees."
Get to know these folks, the "most cracked of the
crackpots," as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on
an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise
believe actually exist.
Here are strange personal museums, weird annual events, and ghost
stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingers' sex
clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabe's famous 1940s Self-Cleaning
House. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and
the Santa Rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick
vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals
at the Portland zoo.
Oh, the list goes on and on.
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.
