Adjustment Day

Adjustment Day
ISBN-10
1784708844
ISBN-13
9781784708849
Category
Satire
Pages
316
Language
English
Published
2019-07-04
Publisher
Vintage
Author
Chuck Palahniuk

Description

The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. People pass the word only to those they trust most- Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorising its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. In this ingeniously comic work, Chuck Palahniuk's first novel in four years, he does what he does best- skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians hatch a nasty fate for the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. When it arrives, Adjustment Day inaugurates a new, disunited states. In this mind-blowing novel, Palahniuk fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche. 'His best book in years' Irish Independent

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