Pygmy

Name: Pygmy
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
ISBN: 9781705041253

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrator: Nick Walther

Unabridged: 7 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/05/2021

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

A gang of adolescent terrorists, a spelling bee, and a terrible plan masquerading as a science project: This is Operation Havoc. Pygmy is one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the US disguised as exchange students. Living with American families to blend in, they are planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this indoctrinated little killer in a cunning double-edged satire of American xenophobia. “A cunning mix of advertising copy, leftist sloganeering and teen slang. … Pygmy is a dish for those who like their satire well done. And without apology.”—San Francisco Chronicle

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