Whos Buster?

A fictional “oral biography,” Rant is told in the voices of nearly sixty people, beginning with a conversation between a car salesman and Rant’s “hillbilly” father, as the latter explains how to get a cheap bereavement plane fare: “First…escape from inside a locked insane asylum.” Then “hitchhike cross-country” and “arrive about a heartbeat too late to keep a repeat child-molester from raping your wife. And your mother. Spawned out of that rape, you have to raise up a son who collects a wagonful of folks’ old, thrown-out teeth. After high school, your wacko kid got’s to run off. Join some cult that lives only by night. Wreck his car, a half a hundred times, and hook up with some kind-of, sort-of, not-really prostitute…. Along the way, your kid got’s to spark a plague that’ll kill thousands of people…. And, lastly, your boy got’s to die in a big, flaming, fiery inferno….”

Yes. Chuck Palahniuk is at it again, this time in his new novel Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey