Damned - Hardcover

Palahniuk, Chuck

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224091158 ISBN 13: 9780224091152

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2011

Synopsis

Thirteen year old Madison has problems: she's overweight, ignored by her movie star parents, and in love with her adopted brother. She's also dead. But not just dead. Madison is in Hell. Chuck Palahniuk's latest, Damned, takes us on Madison's journey through Hell, as she navigates the Hillocks of Discarded Nail Pairings and the River of Vomit, meeting everyone from Charles Darwin to Marilyn Monroe, with a colorful cast of characters (damned for unspeakable acts, like wearing white shoes after Labor Day), to determine why she's really there, and whether she will be damned for eternity. In Damned, Hell really does exist, as a place where your only career choice is telemarketer (yes, that's where those calls actually originate), the currency is Halloween candy, and 'the in-flight movie is always The English Patient, never The Breakfast Club.' With witty, laugh-out-loud prose, and a twist like only Palahniuk can write, this dark comedic novel is sure to be ranked among his best.

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Review:

"True to Palahniuk form, Damned is gross in parts, scandalous in others and funny throughout. And, tantalisingly, it concludes with a 'to be continued..." (Danielle Goldstein TimeOut Magazine)

"Palahniuk has described the novel as The Lovely Bones meets The Shawshank Redemption via Judy Blume. Expect to be appalled" (Vogue)

"Gleefully riffing on Judy Blume's 1970 coming-of-age classic Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, Palahniuk's dead heroine must traverse the infernal landscape in search of Satan - and of her true self - as she tries to discover exactly how she died." (Financial Times)

"Palahniuk certainly has a way with words. His ever-inventive, high-energy prose is a joy." (The Daily Mirror)

"Damned is vintage Chuck - as dark as it gets, but with loads of gross-out humour, all your favourite dead celebs, and plenty of grim details of the Inferno's unmentionable horrors." (Dazed & Confused)

Book Description:

A dark, disturbing and very, very funny new novel from the inimitable Chuck Palahniuk - his best yet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0224091158
• ISBN 13: 9780224091152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256