Diary: A Novel / Advance Reading Copy, First Edition, New

Palahniuk, Chuck

ISBN 10: 0385509472 / ISBN 13: 9780385509473

Published by Doubleday, 2003

About this Item

Softcover, trade paperback format, 8.25" x 5.50", 241 pages, Advance Reading Copy as printed on front cover, Condition: New, Unread, Spine not broken, September 2003 First Edition as stated, First Printing, Full # print line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 as printed on copyright page, Publisher Letter Laid-In as 1st pageFrom: Gerald howard/Vice President/Executive Editor at Large, Dated April 18, 2003, TO: "Dear Reader:.", Novels by Chuck Palahniuk: * Fight Club (1996) Survivor (1999) Invisible Monsters (1999) Choke (2001) Lullaby (2002) Diary (2003) Haunted (2005) Rant (2007) Snuff (2008) Pygmy (2009) Tell-All (2010) Invisible Monsters Remix (2012) Beautiful You (2014) Adjustment Day (2018) The Invention of Sound (2020).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Diary: A Novel / Advance Reading Copy, First Edition, New
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385509472
• ISBN 13: 9780385509473
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Advance Reader's Copy
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

“CAN YOU FEEL THIS?”

Chuck Palahniuk, the bestselling author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby continues his twenty-first-century reinvention of the horror novel in this scary and profound look at our quest for some sort of immortality.

Diary takes the form of a “coma diary” kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at 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 remodeled and scrawling vile messages all over the walls—an old habit of builders but dramatically overdone in Peter’s case. Angry homeowners are suing left and right, 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. But can her newly discovered talent be part of a larger, darker plan? Of course it can …
Diary is a dark, hilarious, and poignant act of storytelling from America’s favorite, most inventive nihilist. It is Chuck Palahniuk’s finest novel yet.

About the Author

CHUCK PALAHNIUK’s novels are the bestselling Lullaby and Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher, Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Choke. He lives in Portland, Oregon.