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Tell-All
Chuck Palahniuk
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2010-05-04
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Satire
Fiction / Humorous / General
ISBN
0385533179
9780385533171
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=th8NdVD8E0gC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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The hyperactive love child of
Page Six
and
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
caught in a tawdry love triangle with
The Fan
. Even Kitty Kelly will blush.
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.
Our
Thelma Ritter
–ish narrator is
Hazie Coogan
, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of
Katherine “Miss Kathie” Kenton
—veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller
Webster Carlton Westward III
, who worms his way into Miss Kathie’s heart (and boudoir). Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathie’s death in a forthcoming
Lillian Hellman
–penned musical extravaganza; as the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save
Katherine Kenton
for her fans—and for posterity.
Tell-All
is funny, subversive, and fascinatingly clever. It’s wild, it’s wicked, it’s bold-faced—it’s vintage
Chuck
.