Tell-All

fusses and plays the boring, egomaniacal fool. Lillian Hellman plays the villain the way Webster plays the villain. In my own story of tonight, this dinner party, I’ll be cool and collected and right. I shall say the perfect rejoinder. I will play the hero.
    Please promise you did
NOT
hear this from me.
    Cut. Print it. Roll credits.
    (end)

Chuck Palahniuk’s ten previous novels are the best-selling
Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Lullaby, Diary, Choke
—which has been made into a film by director Clark Gregg, starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston—
Survivor, Invisible Monsters
, and
Fight Club
, which was made into a film by director David Fincher. He is also the author of the nonfiction profile of Portland, Oregon,
Fugitives and Refugees
, published as part of the Crown Journeys series, and the nonfiction collection
Stranger Than Fiction
. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
    Copyright © 2010 by Chuck Palahniuk
    All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Palahniuk, Chuck.
Tell-all / Chuck Palahniuk. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3566.A4554T45 2010
813′.54—dc22
2009032846
    eISBN: 978-0-385-53317-1
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