{"product_id":"2940169465372","title":"Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFight Club\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDiary\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that prove that real life has imagination beaten cold in the strangeness and wonder departments\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine.  The pieces that comprise \u003ci\u003eStranger Than Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, his first nonfiction collection, prove just \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling.  Encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the big budget film production of the movie \u003ci\u003eFight Club\u003c\/i\u003e; life as an assembly-line drive train installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world (and mangled ears) of college wrestlers; the underground world of iron-pumping anabolic steroid gobblers; the immensely upsetting circumstances of his father's murder and the trial of his killer-each essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and\/or observed by one of our most flagrantly daring and original literary talents.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114502668528,"sku":"2940169465372","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169465372_p0.jpg?v=1763683318","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169465372","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}