When Adjustment Day arrives, it fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche. The weak want you to forgo your destiny just as they’ve shirked theirs. There is only your son and his son and his son and the world you leave for them. Into this dyspeptic time a blue-black book is launched carrying such wisdom as: Chuck Palahniuk Adjustment Day Paperback 4 July 2019 by Chuck Palahniuk (Author) 1,770 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £3.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0.00 Free with your Audible trial Library binding £43.19 3 Used from £43.19 2 New from £50.17 Paperback £9.19 7 Used from £4. Smug, geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males working-class men dream of burying the elites and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. They are ready for the reckoning.Īdjustment Day, the author’s first novel in four years, is an ingeniously comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. They’ve been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives.

People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. does what all great satire should do: offer an exaggerated yet troublingly poignant reflection on the society that inspired it.ADJUSTMENT DAY by Chuck Palahniuk - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK See all titles by Chuck Palahniuk. Chuck Palahniuk: Adjustment Day by Strand Book Store Chuck Palahniuk came to the Strand Main Floor book-buying desk to sign copies of his new book. may not be peak Palahniuk, but that's really more of a testament to the greats before it than it is a denouncement of the book itself. In fact, it's commonly difficult to remember who's who and what's happened last with them, because the narrative is so jumbled.

the gimmick of jumping from person-to-person in brief sections is, to an extent, quite clever and gripping however, it simultaneously prevents some set-ups from landing because their placements are so fragmented and brief. Palahniuk's usual knack for arresting detail and dialogue is in full force here, and while the novel is filled with idiosyncratic style in terms of conversations, inner thoughts, and scene setting, it's the desensitized violence of Adjustment Day that stuns most. Another highpoint comes from its characters, as just about every one of them is distinctly fleshed out and convincing. Adjustment Day is Palahniuks razor-sharp take on nationalism, conspiracy theories. As expected, the plot is inherently provocative, imaginative, and multifaceted.

a characteristically compelling, shocking, amusing, and insightful journey that, at times, also seems too disjointed, preachy, and inconsequential.

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