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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
by: Chuck Palahniuk

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385517874
ISBN: 0385517874
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: May 01, 2007
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: May 01, 2007
Sales Rank: 9938
Studio: Doubleday

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“Like most people I didn’t meet Rant Casey until after he was dead. That’s how it works for most celebrities: After they croak, their circle of friends just explodes.…”

Rant is the mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic Fight Club and the pedal-to-the-metal horrorfest Haunted. It takes the form of an oral history of one Buster “Rant” Casey, who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time.

“What ‘Typhoid Mary’ Mallon was to typhoid, what Gaetan Dugas was to AIDS, and Liu Jian-lun was to SARS, Buster Casey would become for rabies.”

A high school rebel who always wins (and a childhood murderer?), Rant Casey escapes from his small hometown of Middleton for the big city. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On appointed nights participants recognize one another by such designated car markings as “Just Married” toothpaste graffiti and then stalk and crash into each other. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. Their collected anecdotes explore the possibility that his saliva caused a silent urban plague of rabies and that he found a way to escape the prison house of linear time.…

“The future you have, tomorrow, won’t be the same future you had, yesterday.”
—Rant Casey

Expect hilarity, 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 visionary to watch to learn what's —uh-oh—coming next.

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

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- Thanks
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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- An Amazing Book!
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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- Go Chuck Go!
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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