Adjustment Day

by Chuck Palahniuk Narrated by Corey Allen

Overview

The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. In this ingeniously comic work, the author's first novel in four years, Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians hatch a nasty fate for 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. When it arrives, Adjustment Day inaugurates the new, disunited states. In this mind-blowing novel, Palahniuk--an equal-opportunity offender--fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.

Editorial Reviews

National Public Radio Book Reviews - Jason Sheehan

"A quick, horrifying descent into madness and murder, gorgeous in its psychotic build-up and over-the-top execution."

Vice - Peter Rugh

"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."

Booklist

"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."

New York Post, “This week’s must-read books” - Mackenzie Dawson

"A send-up of the many absurdities in our society."

Goodreads - Kerry Shaw

"[Adjustment Day] is what you'd expect from the author best known for writing Fight Club: violent, kinetic, and deeply disturbing."

Shelf Awareness

"[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."

The Hollywood Reporter - Graeme McMillan

"Adjustment Day feels, in many ways, like a novel made out of the times we’re living in—one in which cult of personality (and a desire to belong to specific tribes) fractures the world people are familiar with, and creates something different—and worse—in its wake."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170912018
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	05/01/2018
Edition description:	Unabridged

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