Dubbed Pygmy but referring to himself as "operative me," the boy has been deeply indoctrinated, in the Manchurian style, frequently quoting Hitler, Mao and Idi Amin to dimwitted schoolmates. "Pygmy" takes place over the course of 36 "dispatches" from Agent 67, a 13-year-old terrorist mole housed by an American host family. They've also cultivated a fervent readership among young misanthropes everywhere. And in "Pygmy," an extended joke involves the hygienic use of D-cell batteries.įrom terminal illness to industrial porn, Palahniuk's nine novels have focused on difficult subjects with an admirable lack of compromise. In "Choke," Victor Mancini runs a phony Heimlich maneuver scam in upscale restaurants. In "Fight Club," Tyler Durden steals bags of post-liposuction fat to make fancy soaps with. By Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday 241 pages $24.95)įrom the outset, Chuck Palahniuk's narrators have set the body-humor bar high.
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