![]() ![]() ![]() However, Hatchet isn’t entirely a work of fiction-Paulsen’s own experiences gave him the material to bring the book to life. The first story is the infamous Guts by Saint Gut-Free, a story which has been the cause of a large number of people fainting at Palahniuks readings. ![]() Dozens of people fainted as he read it aloud. He finally gets help by using his own initiative. There's a funny story in the afterword of Haunted about Chuck going on tour and doing readings of Guts when the book was first released. Brian endures daily threats and storms, including a tornado, but he learns to hunt, build a shelter and craft. Part of the Brian’s Saga series, Hatchet, one of Paulsen’s best-known novels, follows thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson who is in a plane crash over Northern Canada and must learn to survive with nothing but a hatchet. Guts was a nominee for both the 2003 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award and the 2007 Lincoln Award. Paulsen has rich life experiences to bring to fiction-he ran away from home at fourteen to join a traveling circus and raced in the Alaskan dog sled race, the Iditarod. In the book, Paulsen recounts the real-life stories that inspired him to write the Brian’s Saga books, from plane crashes to working as an emergency volunteer. The book was praised for its larger-than-life story, which references problems and ironies of neoliberalism and alienation. ![]() Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books (2001) is a work of nonfiction by Gary Paulsen. Palahniuk’s Choke (2001) is a contemporary novel that tells the story of a man who pretends to choke in restaurants so he can have sex with women. ![]()
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