Book description
Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in
the United States from his totalitarian homeland. An 'exchange student'
he is welcomed with open arms by his Midwestern host family.
Simpsons-spinoffs, they introduce him into the rituals of postmodern
American life, which he views with utter contempt. Along with his fellow
operatives, he is planning something big, something truly, truly awful,
to bring this big dumb country's fat inhabitants to their knees.
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.
