{"product_id":"2026100008830-secondhand-diary-a-novel","title":"Diary: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the savage mind behind Fight Club comes a psychological descent into obsession, isolation, and the dark underbelly of artistic ambition. Diary: A Novel chronicles the story of Misty Marie Kleinman, a once-promising art student now trapped in a suffocating marriage on Waytansea Island, a decaying tourist resort where the locals harbour a sinister and ancient secret. When her contractor husband Peter falls into a mysterious coma after a string of vandalism incidents, Misty is left to care for their daughter, fend off lawsuits, and wrestle with a compulsive urge to paint — an urge that grows more consuming and more terrifying with each passing day. Narrated as a coma diary addressed to Peter, the novel unravels with mounting dread, blurring the boundary between creation and destruction.\n\nChuck Palahniuk, the enfant terrible of American transgressive fiction, constructs a narrative that argues art is not a gift but a curse — a force that devours its host for the benefit of a hungry world. His signature staccato prose and sardonic wit are weaponised here to dissect themes of identity, sacrifice, community, and the commodification of beauty, all wrapped in the aesthetics of a ghost story. Fans of his earlier work will recognise the nihilistic undertow, but Diary carries a uniquely intimate horror — one that asks whether genius is ever truly your own, or merely borrowed time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49336811028699,"sku":"2026100008830-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e2e71edc-7c66-43c3-8f3d-961a7b815b37.png?v=1789958386","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008830-secondhand-diary-a-novel","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}