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Adjustment Day: A Novel

Adjustment Day: A Novel

by Chuck Palahniuk (Author), Chuck Palahniuk (Author)

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    Hardcover 2018

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Synopsis

People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious book and memorising its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.

Adjustment Day, the author's first novel in four years, is an ingeniously comic tale in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians edge 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.

Into this dyspeptic time a blue-black book is launched carrying such wisdom as:

The weak want you to forego your destiny just as they've shirked theirs.

A smile is your best bulletproof vest.

When Adjustment Day arrives, it inescapably spawns the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact and conspiracy theory out there.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 336
 Edition: 1ST
 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01 May 2018
ISBN 10: 0393652599
ISBN 13: 9780393652598

Media Reviews
A quick, horrifying descent into madness and murder, gorgeous in its psychotic build-up and over-the-top execution.--Jason Sheehan
Palahniuk toys with our cultural dividing lines--race, class, sexuality--and all the fears, myths, and conspiracies that come along with them. The result is a novel that straddles both the horrific and the absurd, kind of like present-day America.--Peter Rugh
A send-up of the many absurdities in our society.--Mackenzie Dawson
[Palahniuk] takes the United States' divided politics to their extreme conclusion and proves along the way that his gift for social satire has only sharpened with time.
Visionary and fearless . . . perhaps [Palahniuk's] darkest, most biting satire to date. . . . Razor-sharp insights and boundless imagination are matched only by his ability to make even the most stomach-churning scenes somehow vividly entertaining. . . . Equal parts Jonathan Swift and Tyler Durden.
A dystopian nightmare that takes all the fractures of our modern society and escalates them to a perverted climax.