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...book is narrated from the point of view of Hazie Coogan, the handler of aging actress and box office gold, Katherine Kenton. Though this pair is fictional, the world they occupy is full of real characters, although at the mercy of Palahniuk’s historical and anachronistic distortions. In the style of Patrick Bateman of “American Psycho,” Coogan’s narration is a constant barrage of brand names, celebrities, and historical references. The narrator self-consciously refers to this multiple times as “name-dropping Tourette’s syndrome...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Palahniuk Goes for Shock, Ends Up with Shlock | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

Palahniuk takes his time at the beginning of the novel introducing the character of Katherine Kenton, who seems like a cross between Katharine Hepburn, Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Taylor, and Lindsay Lohan. In the narration, Coogan discusses her own endless maneuvering to manage Kenton’s movie-star image, calling the actress, “my work-in-progress,” and adding, “My job title is not that of nanny or guardian angel, but I perform duties of both.” The reader follows as she juggles Kenton’s drug use, serial...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Palahniuk Goes for Shock, Ends Up with Shlock | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...book succeeds most is on the level of satire. Unlike in his previous books, Palahniuk does not show his readers a secret or paranormal world, but instead takes one especially familiar to most modern audiences and exaggerates its flaws to significant comic effect. For example in one scene, Katherine Kenton decides to adopt a child, and after an extended perusal of infants, she decides that none of them go with her newly painted walls. There is a similar kind of witty iciness throughout, which gives off the air of certain modern celebrities under the guise of a distant...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Palahniuk Goes for Shock, Ends Up with Shlock | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

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