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'a love letter to old Hollywood... beautifully savage' -- Book Munch
'Chuck turns his gimlet and razor sharp pen on celebrity' -- Grazia
`Tell-All gives us the sinister interplay between an over-the-hill, overweight and much-married Hollywood diva and her seething, oppressed house-keeper, conducted in terms of the master-slave dialectic familiar from Hegel and innumerable Bette Davis movies.' --The Guardian
'This dark reimagining of All About Eve is a hilarious assault on celebrity' --Big Issue North
'Chuck turns his gimlet and razor sharp pen on celebrity' -- Grazia
`Tell-All gives us the sinister interplay between an over-the-hill, overweight and much-married Hollywood diva and her seething, oppressed house-keeper, conducted in terms of the master-slave dialectic familiar from Hegel and innumerable Bette Davis movies.' --The Guardian
'This dark reimagining of All About Eve is a hilarious assault on celebrity' --Big Issue North
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Chuck Palahniuk tackles Hollywood, in an hilarious assault on celebrity, and the Golden Age of Hollywood, when grand dames ruled the roost
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have enjoyed several of Palahniuk's other books, admiring the quality of the writing to be found among the often very robust subject matter.
That made this one all the more disappointing; it felt rather too much like a great idea for a short story which had been stretched to book length, to the point where it became not a little self-indulgent and guilty of the same sort of hubris it is allegedly satirising.
It may well appeal rather more to those with a better knowledge of the milieu; for me, there is one joke in the whole piece, which is taken too far to be funny any more.
That made this one all the more disappointing; it felt rather too much like a great idea for a short story which had been stretched to book length, to the point where it became not a little self-indulgent and guilty of the same sort of hubris it is allegedly satirising.
It may well appeal rather more to those with a better knowledge of the milieu; for me, there is one joke in the whole piece, which is taken too far to be funny any more.
Format:Paperback
I enjoyed this experimental novel, but it felt like an entertaining short story dragged out over too many pages without enough care. There's a fair bit of repetition and the noirish story is nothing new, with unlikable caricatures as central characters and a fairly predictable plot. That said the constant name dropping appealed to my geeky side and I do like a bit of Hollywood melodrama. It just feels like it's been rushed into print without the necessary thought and attention. It's a shame because with a better story it could have been fascinating.
8 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
While voice performer Hillary Huber records for a number of major publishers this listener is delighted that Blackstone signed her on for TELL-ALL. She delivers a controlled, easy listening narration - "controlled" is not easy to do when the author is Chuck Palahniuk Those who have read or heard his previous works (Pygmy, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, to mention a few) know he's one of the most inventive authors working today - unpredictable, ambitious in subject matter, funny, and impossible to pinpoint.
TELL-ALL has been likened by someone as a cross between Page Six and Sunset Boulevard. Palahniuk takes on celebrity - how it is perceived, what it is. He gives us a cast of multitudes headed by Katherine Kenton, an aging but not about to give up movie star and Hazie Coogan who has long been her servant, protector, flunky, and major-domo seeing to whatever Miss Kathie needs through her numerous love affairs, and major movie moments. The alcohol imbibing sexually rapacious star is adored by her public who see only the image presented to them.
Webster Carlton Westward III, one more suitor, soon appears and has little trouble in winning over Miss Kathie but he has an agenda of his own. He has already penned a tell-all memoir of their affair with a fatally unhappy ending. Another challenge for Hazie
Rife with gossip and enough name dropping to satisfy the most celebrity hungry fan TELL-ALL is a riff on old Hollywood. It's pure Palahniuk.
Enjoy
- Gail Cooke
TELL-ALL has been likened by someone as a cross between Page Six and Sunset Boulevard. Palahniuk takes on celebrity - how it is perceived, what it is. He gives us a cast of multitudes headed by Katherine Kenton, an aging but not about to give up movie star and Hazie Coogan who has long been her servant, protector, flunky, and major-domo seeing to whatever Miss Kathie needs through her numerous love affairs, and major movie moments. The alcohol imbibing sexually rapacious star is adored by her public who see only the image presented to them.
Webster Carlton Westward III, one more suitor, soon appears and has little trouble in winning over Miss Kathie but he has an agenda of his own. He has already penned a tell-all memoir of their affair with a fatally unhappy ending. Another challenge for Hazie
Rife with gossip and enough name dropping to satisfy the most celebrity hungry fan TELL-ALL is a riff on old Hollywood. It's pure Palahniuk.
Enjoy
- Gail Cooke
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