Lillian Hellman, can you read this?
Chuck writes a winner with this all-star tribute to the glamour and glitz of the Golden Age of the entertainment industry. The story is simple--or is it? First let me start with the writing style. Chuck's last few books have been experimental, frustrating this reader, until I finally declare the experiment "brilliant." Chuck doesn't play with style in Tell-All, but he does do something pretty unique. He "name drops" every single A to D list star from the beginning of celebrity-dom in Hollywood. Hundreds of names. Names I thought were fictitious until I Googled them. And everything he writes about them--their dialogue, their actions--all lies. All Chuck's imagination. Lillian Hellman would be proud!
All of these names are intertwined into a brilliant tale of an aging movie star, struggling to hold on to her fame and name, whose vanity rivals that of Dorian Gray. Always present is her dedicated companion, the teller of this tale. Palahniuk weaves a delicious story of husbands, has-bands, deceased pets and orphans hoping. Brilliant!
Chuck writes a winner with this all-star tribute to the glamour and glitz of the Golden Age of the entertainment industry. The story is simple--or is it? First let me start with the writing style. Chuck's last few books have been experimental, frustrating this reader, until I finally declare the experiment "brilliant." Chuck doesn't play with style in Tell-All, but he does do something pretty unique. He "name drops" every single A to D list star from the beginning of celebrity-dom in Hollywood. Hundreds of names. Names I thought were fictitious until I Googled them. And everything he writes about them--their dialogue, their actions--all lies. All Chuck's imagination. Lillian Hellman would be proud!
All of these names are intertwined into a brilliant tale of an aging movie star, struggling to hold on to her fame and name, whose vanity rivals that of Dorian Gray. Always present is her dedicated companion, the teller of this tale. Palahniuk weaves a delicious story of husbands, has-bands, deceased pets and orphans hoping. Brilliant!
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