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Fugitives and Refugees :A Walk in Portland, Oregon

3.51 ( 9,394 Ratings by Goodreads)
Fugitives and Refugees

Fugitives and Refugees :A Walk in Portland, Oregon

3.51 (9,394 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 4 March, 2004
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Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk's tonsils currently reside?

Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets?

What goes on at the Scum Center?

How do you get to the Apocalypse Cafe?

In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers, and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love, Portland is the home of America's "fugitives and refugees." Get to know these folks, the "most cracked of the crackpots," as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise believe actually exist.

Here are strange personal museums, weird annual events, and ghost stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingers' sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabe's famous 1940s Self-Cleaning House. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa Rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland zoo.

Oh, the list goes on and on.

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Type Book
ISBN13 9780099464679
ISBN10 0099464675
Number Of Pages 176
Item Weight 127 g
Product Dimensions 129 x 198 x 12 mm
Publisher / Reseller Vintage Publishing
Format paperback
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Media Reviews

Here's a writer whose life looks a lot like his fiction * New York Times Book Review *
Maybe our generation has found it's Don DeLillo * Brett Easton Ellis *
A wonderful writer * The Face *
Palahniuk is one of the freshest, most intriguing voices to appear in a long time * New York Newsday *

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Author's Bio

Chuck Palahniuk is the bestselling author of fifteen fictional works, including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Rant, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned, Doomed, Beautiful You, and most recently Make Something Up. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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