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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100385526350
ISBN-139780385526357
eBay Product ID (ePID)78403177
Product Key Features
Book TitleTell-All
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
TopicGeneral, Satire, Literary, Humorous / General
GenreFiction
AuthorChuck Palahniuk
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2009-032846
Dewey Edition22
Dewey DecimalFIC
SynopsisThe 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 .