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Charles Michael Palahniuk, known in literature as Chuck Palahniuk columbus food trucks was born in Pasco (Washington) on 21 February 1962 by Carol and Fred Palahniuk Tallent. Until the age of fourteen grows in a motorhome near Burbank; later the parents separate and divorce so Chuck along with three brothers columbus food trucks living frequent and long periods in the estate of the grandparents, columbus food trucks the parents of the mother. Chuck has never known the paternal grandparents instead, which were of Ukrainian origin in had left Canada in 1907 to seek his fortune in New York: in an interview with the newspaper "The Independent", the writer confesses that his grandfather after a quarrel allegedly shot and killed his wife (his grandmother) and subsequently committed suicide with the same weapon, while his father watched the scene from under the bed.
With this uncomfortable past, Palahniuk still managed to complete his studies and in 1986 follows a degree from the School columbus food trucks of Journalism at the University of Oregon. To stay in these years he also works at the KLCC, a public radio station based in Eugene, in the state of Oregon. After graduation he decided to move to Portland, where he works for a local newspaper. After this first short period of work experience, leaves the field of journalism and decided to become a mechanic; spiecializza you in the repair and maintenance of diesel engines: his days are characterized by repairing trucks and writing short technical manuals.
Since 1988 he started working as a volunteer at the shelter for vagrants and the homeless; also lends free help to the elderly in nursing homes and when needed provides transportation of the terminally ill, accompanying them to the meetings of support groups. A patient who was so fond of Chuck, dies: Palahniuk columbus food trucks remains deeply grieved so much that he decided to suspend columbus food trucks its activities in the field of volunteering.
The experiences of Portland columbus food trucks Palahniuk to provide elements that will gather in his first literary works. Also in the city of Portland, Palahniuk became a member of the group "Cacophony Society" by participating regularly in events, including the annual "Santa Rampage", a curious Christmas party, open to all, with plenty of jokes, college prank and large consumption alcohol. The "Cacophony Society" is a basic element of "Project Mayhem", which will be included in his most famous novel of success: "Fight Club".
Quandi Palahniuk decided to write novels, has now crossed the threshold of the thirty years of age: as he himself says, the desire to write comes after attending a writing workshop by the name of "Dangerous columbus food trucks Writing," taught by Tom Spanbauer, the which would later influenced columbus food trucks in important ways the style of minimalist Palahniuk writer. His first novel is titled "Negative reinforcement" and is published in August of 1990 in the monthly literary "Modern Short Stories"; a few months later, in October, columbus food trucks the same journal published his short story "The Love Theme of Sybil and William."
The very first novel by Chuck Palahniuk's "If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Already"; initially columbus food trucks work involves about seven hundred pages and is an attempt by Chuck emulate Stephen King; the ambitious project still does not see the light, while some of the material is then used to "Fight Club." Various publishers rifutano then his second manuscript, called "Manifesto" (later would be taken as "Invisible Monsters); the cause of rejection seems durezzza the topics covered and the form content. The next effort, the well-known" Fight Club " , is a work developed in the rare spare time that its author could have during its use as a mechanic. Thanks to Gerry Howard, Chuck gets a contract with a major publishing house: "Fight columbus food trucks Club", thus sees the light .
For lovers of this book of worship, columbus food trucks is remarkable as it was initially conceived as a short story (the future Chapter number 6 of the novel) to be included in the collection "Pursuit of Happiness" (The Pursuit of Happiness), started columbus food trucks in 1995.
Subsequently, in 1999, is published on the renewed "Invisible Monsters" "and the new" Survivor ": new publications to procure Palahniuk considerable notoriety. The release in cinemas of the film" Fight Club "(1999, directed by David Fincher, starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton) puts even more in the spotlight name Palahniuk; but it is only with the release of "Choke" (Choke, 2001) that the author is numbered among the great American columbus food trucks writers of the new millennium . "Choke" columbus food trucks became a best seller, and from this point on the career of the writer makes a leap forward: all subsequent novels get all immediate success. <