![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His 16th novel begins with war imminent in the Middle East and a compulsory draft about to be introduced. Palahniuk's depiction of modern men may be short on nuance but, like many satirists, his humour expresses a genuine anger, and that gives his books a crackling energy that is some compensation for their lack of subtlety. But if you want to know how he views himself – if you want to read the sort of novel that he might write, with himself as the hero – then Chuck Palahniuk is your man.įrom his first book, Fight Club (1996), Palahniuk has spoken up for the beleaguered American male: the guy who feels that his masculinity is compromised in our feminised, risk-averse world, and that his well-being is ignored by politicians in thrall to political correctness, and so has been humiliatingly forced to adopt the victim mentality he despises in women and minorities. ![]() If you want to know what an ordinary white American man is like, you can read, say, John Updike's novels about Harry Angstrom. ![]()
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