rant - chuck palahniuk

[Susie Bould]

I don't know if this is of interest to anyone but the guy who wrote the chilling Fight Club - Chuck Palanuik is releasing a new book on the 17th May called Rant and it looks like its going to be amazing...this is when i like my job the most - when i get to put the press out about a book im interested in reading! i have placed the official press release below and you guys are gonna be the first to read it cos i havent sent it out to ANY other sites or forums yet!!
happy reading and let me know if you want to know anything else about the release!!


RANT is the eagerly anticipated and twisted new novel from the author of Fight Club. It takes the form of an oral history of one Buster “Rant” Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, admirers, detractors, and relations have their say on this evil character, who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time.


Buster Casey was every small kid born into a small town, searching for real thrills in a world of video games and action/adventure movies. Anyone who’s ever kissed him would do well to seek treatment, for his recreational drug of choice is rabies and he gets bitten by black widow spiders for the priapic effect of their venom.

The high school rebel who wins, Rant Casey escapes from his hometown of Middleton for the big city, where he becomes a leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing, where on designated nights, the participants recognise each other by dressing their cars with tin-can tails and ‘Just Married’ toothpaste graffiti. Or, with ‘forgotten’ coffee mugs bolted to their car roofs or Christmas trees tied from bumper to bumper. During specific windows of time, in limited areas of the city, Party Crashers look for the designated markings in order to stalk and crash into each other. It’s in this violent, late-night hunting game that Casey meets three friends.

And after his spectacular death, these friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short life. Their collected anecdotes explore the charges that his saliva infected hundreds and caused a silent, urban plague of rabies….