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Tell-All [Paperback]

Chuck Palahniuk
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2 Jun 2011

'Every word he's written about me is a lie including "and" and "the"...'

For decades Hazie Coogan has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine 'Miss Kathie' Kenton, a star of the wattage of Elizabeth Taylor and the emotional torments of Judy Garland. The survivor of multiple marriages, career comebacks and cosmetic surgeries, Miss Kathie lives the way legends should. But danger lurks when gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III arrives and worms his way into Miss Kathie's heart and boudoir. Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written his celebrity tell-all memoir and that it foretells her death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman-penned World War II musical extravaganza Unconditional Surrender, in which Miss Kathie portrays Lily defeating Japanese forces from Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki. As the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans - and for posterity...


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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (2 Jun 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0099526980
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099526988
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 58,839 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Blackly hilarious...full of brilliantly acid one-liners...a gripping, outrageous and stylishly written hoot (News Of The World )

Chuck turns his gimlet and razor sharp pen on celebrity, with a darkly sparkling tale inspired by the classic All About Eve (Lauren Laverne Grazia )

Palahniuk remains a cutting stylist who knows how to toss a well-aimed barb (Daily Telegraph )

With his love of contemporary fairy tales that are gritty and dirty rather than pretty, Palahniuk is the likeliest inheritor of Vonnegut's place in American writing (San Francisco Chronicle )

Chuck Palahniuk is one of modern American fiction's most interesting stylists, and he's at it again... A masterful feat (Associated Press )

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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 8 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing 20 Sep 2010
By G. L. Haggett VINE™ VOICE
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must read 21 Mar 2013
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I disagree with some of the reviews as I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
It is entertaining, sinister, funny, has sharp observations and to-the-point descriptions of characters and human flaws.
Deserves a space on any bookshelf.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Solid Effort. 28 Jan 2013
Format:Paperback
There are certain authors that make you feel as though you should have a bingo card with you when reading their work. Chuck is most certainly one of those authors. Although in his defense he does try and switch up his writing style on a regular basis in an effort to keep things fresh with varying degrees of success, it's just a shame he couldn't try and switch up his story telling style as well.

Tell-All is by no means a great piece, but it's definitely not Palahiuk's worst work by a long shot either. Sure the constant name dropping gets annoying after the first few pages, and if you've read a couple of Chuck's books before then you know exactly where the story is going. That being said, there are some genuinely funny and sometimes insightful moments in Tell-All, enough to keep me from dismissing it entirely. Plus it's a very short read, so you won't feel as though you've wasted a huge amount of time.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not his best or his worst. 11 Sep 2011
By vi
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I have read all of Palahniuk's work and throughly enjoyed the majority. (HAUNTED my favourite. PYGMY my least) TELL-ALL contains some of Palahniuk's trademarks; the prescription drug taking,the obsession with fame,fortune and vanity and twisted characters.

It's a story of an aged actress told from the point of view of her maid/assistant/deceptive life coach? (the job description changes as narrative)The actress,living in the golden era of cinema tries desperatly to remain young,beautiful and pertinent. Through-out famous names are dropped some I knew instantly (Marlon Brando. Fred Astaire) some vaguely and some not at all but all of this adds to the charm and detail of the story and may depend on how old you are.(You can always look them up. I did.)As in any modern gossip magazine in TELL-ALL there are star studded dinner parties,award shows,celebrity marriage and death all told with Palahniuk's savage wit and dark humour. The orphan babies rejected because they don't match the mansions paint colour scheme is a particular highlight.Sometimes it's like reading a nightmarish entertainment weekly without the air-brushing and media-friendly celebrity interviews. A behind the scenes on a really bad-hair day.

It may make you think about what lies behind the make-up and phony sparkles of celebrity, it may not but it is good fun, well paced and, as always with Palahniuk, well reseached which adds well to the entertaining tale. Overall a good story that can probably be read in just a few days. Thank you.
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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars INVENTIVE, UNPREDICTABLE, FUNNY! AUDIO REVIEW 5 Jun 2010
By Gail Cooke TOP 500 REVIEWER
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.

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- Gail Cooke
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