Turn The Page: New Chuck Palahniuk Novel Pygmy Announced

Taken From Chuck\’s Official Site:

Posted March 20th, 2008 by Dennis

In emailing back and forth with Chuck earlier this week, I asked him what he\’s been up to.  I might have been feeling him out for what he\’s been working on a little.  But it wasn\’t my primary intention.  Still, little did I know he\’d be willing to reveal this much, about his follow-up book to \’Snuff\’.

The book is called \’Pygmy\’, and it\’s already written!  Read on below for the plot:

I\’ve just finished the first draft of a novel called \”Pygmy,\” a dark comedy about terrorism and racism.  The lead character is a 13-year-old foreign exchange student sent to live with a suburban, white, middle-class family.  Oh, and they\’re Christians.  The visit is for six months, and he\’s one of a dozen similar kids, all shipped to America to live with typical families. 

The secret truth is that Pygmy is a terrorist, trained since infancy in martial arts, chemistry and radical hatred of the United States.  He has six months to build a prize-winning project for the National Science Fair.  If he succeeds, he and his project will go to Washington, D.C. for the finals competition — where the project will explode, killing millions. 

 

So far, Gerry Howard says it\’s the best book I\’ve done.  Fingers crossed for luck.

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