Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780385663502
ISBN: 0385663501
Label: Anchor Canada
Manufacturer: Anchor Canada
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2008-05-06
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Release Date: 2008-05-06
Studio: Anchor Canada

The provocative and mind-bending new novel from the bestselling author of Fight Club and Haunted.

Rant takes the form of a (fictional) oral history of Buster “Rant” Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, admirers, detractors, and relations have their say on this evil character, who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time.

Buster Casey was every small kid born in a small town, searching for real thrills in a world of video games and action/adventure movies. The high school rebel who always wins – and a childhood murderer? – Rant Casey escapes from his hometown of Middleton into the big city and becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing, where, on designated nights, the participants recognize each other by dressing their cars with tin-can tails, “Just Married” toothpaste graffiti, and other refuse, then look for special markings in order to stalk and crash into each other. It’s in this violent, late-night hunting game that Casey makes three friends. And after his spectacular death, these friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short life. Their collected anecdotes explore the charges that his saliva infected hundreds and caused a silent, urban plague of rabies . . .

Expect hilarity and horror, and blazing insight into the desperate and surreal contemporary human condition as only Chuck Palahniuk can deliver it. He’s the postmillennial Jonathan Swift, the man to watch to learn what’s – uh-oh – coming next.

Excerpt from RANT:

Wallace Boyer (Car Salesman): Like most people, I didn’t meet and talk to Rant Casey until after he was dead. That’s how it works for most celebrities, after they croak their circle of close friends just explodes. A dead celebrity can’t walk down the street without meeting a million best buddies they never met in real life.

Dying was the best career move Jeff Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy ever made. . . .

The way Rant Casey used to say it: Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive–or praising you after you ain’t.


From the Hardcover edition.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great
Comment: I thought the book had everything this modern-day cultures needs to help people see outside the box.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Thanks
Comment: The book was in great condition and came a little late but I think it had to ship pretty far so no biggie.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: An Amazing Book!
Comment: To put it simply, I loved this book! When I first started to read it I was a little put off by how the author had the story narrated but I came to love it. The book has different people telling different accounts connected to the main character Rant/Buster Casey. At first each person would bring up some event that doesn't make sense but when the other accounts from different people were read you understand what is going on. The imagination the author must have to think of such a story! I didn't even know he wrote Fight Club when I picked up the book but I will definitely be looking for other books of his. I enjoyed this book and will tell others about it and the author.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Go Chuck Go!
Comment: A way out in left field read that at times is hard to follow... but keep reading because it will all make sense in the end.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Like I told you, I didn't really meet Rant Casey until after he was dead
Comment: "Perpetuating Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny breaks ground for further socilization"... When reading this book I didn't care much for the first two hundred pages; but the final hundred brought the picture all into focus, and put a nice frame around it! Recommended Reading

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