An edition of Pygmy (1998)

Pygmy

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An edition of Pygmy (1998)

Pygmy

  • 3.83 ·
  • 6 Ratings
  • 13 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 11 Have read

The most ambitious novel yet from the author of Fight Club and ChokeBegins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival mid-western American airport greater area. Flight _. Date . Priority mission top success to complete. Code name. Operation Havoc.Fellow operatives already pass immigrant control, through secure doors and to embrace own other host family people. Operative Tibor, agent 23; operative Magda, agent 36; operative Ling, agent 19. All violate United States secure port of entry having success. Each now embedded among middle-income corrupt American family, all other homes, other schools, and neighbours of same city. By not after next today, strategy of web of operatives to be established.'Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland (a mash-up of North Korea, Cuba, Communist-era China, and Nazi-era Germany), as an "exchange student" into the welcoming arms of his Simpsons-spinoff Midwestern host family. Host cow father (he works in the biological weapons complex outside of town), chicken neck mother, pig dog brother, and the disconcertingly self-possessed cat sister introduce Pygmy into the rituals of postmodern American life, which he views with utter contempt. Along with his fellow operatives, all indoctrinated into the mindset of the totalitarian state, he is planning something big, something truly, truly awful, that will bring this big dumb country and its fat, dumb inhabitants to their knees.Pygmy is a comedy. It is also Chuck Palahniuk's finest, most ambitious novel since Fight Club.

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Pygmee (Dutch Edition)
2011-05-01, Geus B.V., Uitgeverij De
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Pygmy
April 20, 2010, Anchor
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Pygmy
2010, Penguin Random House
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Pigmei
2010, Izd-vo "AST", "Astrel £"
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Pygmy
2009, Doubleday
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Pygmy
2009, Doubleday
in English
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Pygmy
2009, Doubleday
in English - 1st ed.
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Pygmy
2009, doubleday
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Pygmy
2009, Random House Publishing Group
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The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park--Chuck Palahniuk's finest novel since the generation-defining Fight Club."Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _ area. Flight . Date __. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc."Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates us with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of an American xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified. For Pygmy and his fellow operatives are cooking up something big, something truly awful, that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees.It's a comedy. And a romance.

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October 4, 2021 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
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