With deft comic sense, a complex and winning hero, and a supporting cast of vividly realized characters, Kinder writes about Jimbo Stark with the same mixture of fond memory and relief that it's over that we all have toward that time when we, too, were perfectly seventeen he makes THE SILVER GHOST one of the very best-and most sensationally written-novels of adolescence. Each story is followed by a chapter of the main narrative, is told by a character in main narrative, and ties back into the main story in some way.

The plot is a frame story for a series of 23 short stories, most preceded by a free verse poem.

In a dazzlingly shifting series of set-pieces, flashbacks, and reveries, Chuck Kinder cuts back and forth from caper to sentiment to myth, from self-pity to self-mockery. Haunted is a 2005 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. THE SILVER GHOST is a wonderful novel of coming of age in America-letter perfect in its evocation of an almost mythical time, and powerfully affecting in its portrait of its hero. Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales youll. Imagining himself sometimes as James Dean's reincarnation, sometimes as a beatnik gangster poet straight out of Jack Kerouac, Jimbo lives a legend of his own construction. Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe and Chuck Palahniuk, all feature.

His America glows with an almost romantic light-it is an electric, song-filled garden for teenage love, where everything is possible, even heroism. With more than 300,000 copies sold, Chuck Palahniuk’s brilliant first novel and cult classic is being reissued with a new Introduction by the author An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, Fight Club is widely recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels of the last decade. Jimbo Stark, teenage soldier of fortune, loves, fights, drinks, mopes, and steals his way through this brilliant novel of the late 1950s.

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