The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Even Kitty Kelly will blush.
Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Tourette's syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list; and a merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman's habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond.
Our Thelma Ritter-ish narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine 'Miss Kathie' Kenton - veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie's heart (and boudoir). Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathie's death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman-penned musical extravaganza; as the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans - and for posterity.
Tell-All is funny, subversive, and fascinatingly clever. It's wild, it's wicked, it's bold-faced - it's vintage Chuck.
Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Tourette's syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list; and a merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman's habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond.
Our Thelma Ritter-ish narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine 'Miss Kathie' Kenton - veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie's heart (and boudoir). Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathie's death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman-penned musical extravaganza; as the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans - and for posterity.
Tell-All is funny, subversive, and fascinatingly clever. It's wild, it's wicked, it's bold-faced - it's vintage Chuck.
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Hardback Editions
June 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Tell-All Author(s):: Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0224087150 / 9780224087155 (UK edition) Publisher: Jonathan Cape Availability: Amazon UK Amazon Amazon CA |
May 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Tell-All Author(s):: Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0385526350 / 9780385526357 (USA edition) Publisher: Doubleday Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
May 2010 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
June 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Tell-All Author(s):: Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0099526980 / 9780099526988 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon UK Amazon |
May 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Tell-All Author(s):: Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0385666322 / 9780385666329 (USA edition) Publisher: Anchor Canada Availability: Amazon Amazon CA |
May 2011 : Paperback
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April 2011 : Paperback
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April 2011 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Tell-All Author(s):: Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0307742261 / 9780307742261 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Inc. Availability: Amazon UK |
June 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Tell-all Author(s):: Chuck Palahniuk ISBN: 0224087169 / 9780224087162 (UK edition) Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd Availability: Amazon UK |
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May 2010 : Audio Cassette
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May 2010 : Audio CD
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May 2010 : Audio CD
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Kindle Editions
February 2011 : Kindle edition
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April 2010 : Kindle edition
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