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Beautiful You
"A billion husbands are about to be replaced."From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of a new product that gives new meaning to the term "self-help." Penny Harrigan is a low-level... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Haunted
Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They're told by people who have answered an ad for a writer's retreat and unwittingly joined a "Survivor"-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desper... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Damned
Think adolescence is hell? You have no idea... Welcome to Dante's Inferno, by way of The Breakfast Club, from the mind of American fiction's most brilliant troublemaker. "Death, like life, is what you make out of it." So says Madison, the whip-tongued 11-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk'... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Doomed
Madison Spencer, the liveliest and snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the afterlife adventure begun in Chuck Palahniuk's bestseller Damned. Just as that novel brought us a brilliant Hell that only he could imagine, Doomed is a dark and twisted apocalyptic vision from this provocative sto... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
The provocative and mind-bending new novel from the bestselling author of Fight Club and Haunted. Rant takes the form of a (fictional) oral history of Buster "Rant" Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, admirers, detractors, and relations have their say on this evil character, who may o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
Twenty one stories and one novella from Chuck Palahniuk, literature's favorite transgressive author, Make Something Up is a compilation that disturbs and delights in equal measure. In "Expedition," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor story to ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Survivor
From the author of the cult sensation Fight Club(now a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter) comes Survivor. "A turbo-charged, deliciously manic satire of contemporary American life." --Newsday. "The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Choke
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be "saved" by fellow patrons who, fee... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Invisible Monsters Remix
For the first time in hardcover, an expanded, radically refashioned "director's cut" of a favorite Chuck Palahniuk novel. Injected with new material and special design elements, Invisible Monsters Remix fulfills Chuck Palahniuk's original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Adjustment Day: A Novel
The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. <P><P>People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They’ve been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. <P>Adjustment Day, the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Crown Journeys)
The author of the best-selling novel reveals his favorite Portland, Oregon landmarks in this autobiographical travel guide that describes the City of Roses as "the home of America's fugitives and refugees." Covering a bit of culture and a bit of history, the guide begins with a Portland vocabulary ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Fight Club: A Novel (Biblioteca Polirom Ser.)
The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club. <P><P>In his debut novel, Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation's most visionary satirist. <P>Fight Club's estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic yo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1996 -
Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Love, betrayal, petty larceny, and high fashion fuel this deliciously comic novel from the author of Fight Club. She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from bei... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different
Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling.In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The Invention of Sound
A father searching for his missing daughter is suddenly given hope when a major clue is discovered, but learning the truth could shatter the seemingly perfect image Hollywood is desperate to uphold. <P><P>Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago. He's never stopped searching. Sudde... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different
Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling.In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The Invention of Sound
Chuck Palahniuk returns with the chilling tale, in classic Palahniuk tradition, of a father in search of his daughter, a young woman with a secret, and a malicious recording that can make "the whole world scream at the exact same time."Private detective Foster Gates is a father is in search of his m... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Survivor: A Novel
"A wild amphetamine ride through the vagaries of fame and the nature of belief."--San Francisco Chronicle Tender Branson--last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult--is dictating his life story into Flight 2039's recorder. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Lullaby
Ever heard of a culling song? It's a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Fight Club 3 (Graphic Novel)
A new movement has replaced Project Mayhem, and even Tyler Durden doesn't know how to play by these rules.Marla Singer is about to deliver her second child, but the daddy isn't her husband--it's Tyler, who's very invested in his heir, and the world he'll inherit, as Die Off Industries plots to fine-... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Fight Club 2 (Graphic Novel)
Fight Club 2 is available exclusively as a Graphic Novel!Some imaginary friends never go away . . .Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, he lives a mundane life. A kid, a wife. Pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it won't last long, the wife has seen to that. He's back where he started, but thi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Fight Club 2 (Graphic Novel)
Some imaginary friends never go away . . .Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, he lives a mundane life. A kid, a wife. Pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it won&’t last long—the wife has seen to that. He&’s back where he started, but this go-round he&’s got more at stake than his own life. Th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Pygmy
Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival mid-western American airport greater _______ area. Flight ____. Date ______. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name. Operation Havoc. Fellow operatives already pass immigrant control, through secure doors and to... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Tell-All
Tell-All is many things: a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when grand dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. A Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama full of big gestures and muted psychic torment. A veritable Tourette's Syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Clown Girl
Clown Girl lives in Baloneytown, a seedy neighborhood where drugs, balloon animals, and even rubber chickens contribute to the local currency. Against a backdrop of petty crime, she struggles to live her dreams, calling on cultural masters Charlie Chaplin, Kafka, and da Vinci for inspiration. In an ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006