Book description
Diary
takes the form of a 'coma diary' kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her
husband lies senseless in hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was
an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying
Peter at art school and being brought back to once quaint, now
tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of
a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in
houses he's refurbished and scrawling vile messages all over the walls.
Angry homeowners are suing, and Misty's dreams of artistic greatness are
in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a
fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting
again, compulsively. The canvases are taken away by her mother-in-law
and her doctor, who seem to have a plan for Misty - and for all those
annoying tourists...
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.
