Pygmy, Chuck Palahniuk
Pygmy, Chuck Palahniuk
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Pygmy

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Unabridged: 7 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/05/2009


Synopsis

Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67, on arrival Midwestern American airport.Code name: Operation Havoc. Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the U.S. disguised as exchange students to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified attack 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 doubleedged satire of an American xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified.

About Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk worked as a diesel mechanic for a trucking company before he became an author. He has published a number of novels, including Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, and Fight Club, which was made into a movie directed by David Fincher. He also wrote the nonfiction works Fugitives and Refugees and Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in Portland, Oregon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper

I got so caught up at reading the mangled English that I forgot I was reading a Chuck Palahniuk book, and I had not properly mentally braced myself when the first horrible thing happens in Chapter 2. After getting that shock, it was easier to remember who I was dealing with. This has got everything y......more

Goodreads review by Sara

If your reading level and vocabulary aren't excellent, you don't have a good grasp of 40's-80's Communist history, and your tolerance for extreme sexual weirdness isn't pretty high, don't read this book. All of Palahniuk's books are a little... extreme, but this one has reached a whole new level of......more

Goodreads review by Imogen

I'm giving this two stars because it's better than Snuff, but only because it's better than Snuff. Like, in hope that ol' Chuck's on an upswing? Okay so. Did you see that M Night Shyamalan movie The Village? If you're like me, five minutes into that movie you were like, 'clearly these puritanical fo......more