3.8
Pygmy
The Manchurian CandidatemeetsSouth Park—Chuck Palahniuk’s finest novel since the generation-definingFight Club.
“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.”
Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates us with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of an American xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified. For Pygmy and his fellow operatives are cooking up something big, something truly awful, that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees.
It’s a comedy. And a romance.
FictionLiterary
RELEASED2009
PUBLISHERDoubleday
LENGTH241
LANGUAGEEN
.jpg)
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel <em>Fight Club</em>, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher. He lives near Vancouver, Washington.<sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk
3.8
Pygmy
The Manchurian CandidatemeetsSouth Park—Chuck Palahniuk’s finest novel since the generation-definingFight Club.
“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.”
Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates us with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of an American xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified. For Pygmy and his fellow operatives are cooking up something big, something truly awful, that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees.
It’s a comedy. And a romance.
FictionLiterary
RELEASED2009
PUBLISHERDoubleday
LENGTH241
LANGUAGEEN
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel <em>Fight Club</em>, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher. He lives near Vancouver, Washington.<sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk
