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Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard–inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Tourette’s syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list; and a merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman’s habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond.
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Nostalgic, comic, cool and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Chuck Palahniuk
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 179
- Publisher
- BOOKCOUN, Anchor, Anchor Canada
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781441735089
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Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel <em>Fight Club</em>, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher. He lives near Vancouver, Washington.<sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk
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