CHUCK PALAHNIUK’s bestselling books are
Pygmy,
Snuff,
Rant,
Haunted,
Lullaby,
Fight Club,
Diary,
Survivor,
Invisible Monsters, and
Choke. He is also the author of a nonfiction profile,
Portland Fugitives and Refugees, published as part of the Crown Journeys series, and the nonfiction collection
Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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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,... [
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