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Adjustment day

Chuck Palahniuk

2018316 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2018
first published
  • 2018W.W. Norton & Company · 316 pages · ENGISBN 9780393652598
  • 2018Penguin Random House · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9781787330955
  • 2018Penguin Random House · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9781787330962
  • 2018Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780393652604
  • 2019Penguin Random House · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9781784708849
  • 2021Random House · 400 pagesISBN 9788439737797
  • 2018Center Point Pub · 478 pagesISBN 9781683248767
  • 2019W. W. Norton & Company · 336 pagesISBN 9780393357073

Politicians have brought the nation to the brink of a third world war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males. Working-class men dream of burying the elites. Professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. Into this dyspeptic time, a blue-black book is launched carrying such wisdom as: Imagine there's no God; there is no Heaven or Hell; there is only your son and his son and his son and the world you leave for them -- The weak want you to forgo your destiny just as they've shirked theirs -- A smile is your best bulletproof vest. Are the directives in the Talbott book the secrets to surviving? Or are they something else entirely? When Adjustment Day arrives, it fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.

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Emotional toneIronic
HumourWry

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