Damned
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:6th Sep '12
Should be back in stock very soon
A dark, disturbing and very, very funny new novel from the inimitable Chuck Palahniuk - his best yet.
It's me, Madison'
Meet Madison, whip-tongued daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, abandoned at a Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off adopting more orphans.
'Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison'
Meet Madison, whip-tongued daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, abandoned at a Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off adopting more orphans. Madison dies of a marijuana overdose and awakes to find herself in Hell, sharing her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that's almost too good to be true.
Welcome to the afterlife as only Palahniuk could imagine it - he makes eternal torment, well, simply divine.
The Lovely Bones meets The Shawshank Redemption via Judy Blume. Expect to be appalled * Vogue *
True to Palahniuk form, Damned is gross in parts, scandalous in others and funny throughout * Time Out *
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 *
Vintage chuck - as dark as it gets * Dazed *
The vistas of his underworld are engrossing * Metro *
The hip, flip prose skips along invoking and ridiculing pop culture * The List *
Damned is highly imaginative and downright funny, representing Chuck Palahniuk at his satirical, twisted best * Liverpool Post *
A dark but funny novel about a 13-year-old girl's journey through hell * Grazia *
Funny and sad, Damned still sneaks in the moments of graphic obnoxiousness that have made Palahniuk into a notorious cult figure -- Stephen Daultrey * Bizarre *
Palahniuk certainly has a way with words. His ever-inventive, high-energy prose is a joy * Daily Mirror *
ISBN: 9780099552598
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 16mm
Weight: 189g
256 pages