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Victor Mancini, un estudiante de medicina fracasado, ha diseñado un complejo plan para cubrir los gastos de la atención médica de su madre: fingir que se asfixia con un pedazo de comida en un restaurante para que la persona que acuda a salvarlo se sienta responsable de el durante el resto de su vida. Y le pase un cheque. Si se practica en varios centenares de restaurantes, la lluvia de dinero esta garantizada. Entre una actuacion y otra en los restaurantes, Victor tambien se gana la vida representando el papel de un campesino miserable en un parque tematico dedicado a la America colonial del siglo XVIII, acude a un grupo de terapia para adictos al sexo (la mejor manera de conocer mujeres) y visita a su madre, cuya vena anarquica hizo de la infancia de Victor una autentica locura. Un antiheroe en tiempos de insania, y una novela que confirma a Palahniuk como una de las voces mas frescas y desopilantes de la narrativa norteamericana.

Tyler Durden, disilluso dalla cultura vacua e consumistica imperante nel mondo occidentale, e un giovane che si trascina in una vita fatta di bugie e di fallimenti. La sua unica valvola di sfogo sono gli incontri clandestini di boxe nei sotterranei dei bar. Tyler crede di aver trovato in questo modo una strada per riscattare il vuoto della propria esistenza; ma nel mondo del pugilato non c'e posto per alcuna regola, freno o limite. Dal romanzo il regista David Fincher ha tratto un film. Postfazione di Fernanda Pivano.

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.

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

Rant is an anti-hero whose recreational drug of choice is rabies. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On designated nights, the Party Crashers chase each other in cars in the hope of a collision, and all the while Rant, the superspreader, transmits his lethal disease.

Shannon McFarland, splendida top model, dalla vita ha avuto tutto quello che si puo desiderare: l'amore, la carriera, un'amicizia sincera. La sua esistenza viene pero sconvolta quando, mentre sta guidando la sua auto, una misteriosa fucilata la raggiunge al volto, lasciandola orrendamente sfigurata e incapace di parlare. E da affascinante centro di attrazione Shannon si ritrova a essere un mostro invisibile, evitato da tutti, tradita dal fidanzato Manus e dall'amica del cuore, Evie. Ma tutto cambia quando in ospedale Shannon fa conoscenza con la Principessa Brandy Alexander, cui manca ancora solo un intervento chirurgico per diventare una vera donna. Brandy non solo la trascinera in un viaggio delirante con il proposito di aiutarla a vendicarsi di Evie e di Manus, ma soprattutto le spieghera come reinventare se stessa. E le insegnera che niente e nessuno e mai quello che sembra a prima vista...

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances the seedy underbellies of billionaires and the tough choices we mak

L'anonimo protagonista di Fight Club e un giovane disilluso dalla cultura vacua e consumistica imperante nel mondo occidentale, che si trascina in una vita fatta di bugie e di fallimenti. La sua unica valvola di sfogo sono gli incontri clandestini di boxe nei sotterranei dei bar. In questo modo crede di aver trovato una strada per riscattare il vuoto della propria esistenza; ma nel mondo del pugilato non c'e posto per alcuna regola, freno o limite. A nessuno importa se vivi o muori.

Victor Mancini, studente di medicina fallito, ha architettato un fantasioso sistema per pagare le spese ospedaliere della vecchia madre: ogni giorno va a cena in un ristorante diverso e, nel bel mezzo della serata, finge di soffocare per colpa di un boccone andato di traverso. Immancabilmente qualcuno si lancia a salvarlo, e altrettanto immancabilmente diventa una sorta di padre adottivo del protagonista e in occasione dell'anniversario dell'incidente gli invia dei soldi. Dopo anni di questa attivita il nostro eroe si trova a ricevere quasi quotidianamente un gruzzolo da persone di cui ormai non ricorda nulla ma che gli sono grate per aver dato un senso alle loro vite. Romanzo di grande originalita, "Soffocare" ci offre un ritratto geniale, sulfureo e divertentissimo della vita, dell'amore, del sesso e della morte nel mondo di oggi.

Stories you'll never forget just try from literature's favorite transgressive author Representing work that spans several years, "Make Something Up"is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight.In "Expedition," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precusor story to"Fight Club." And in other stories, the absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In "Knock, Knock," a son hopes to tell one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments, while in "Tunnel of Love," a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing 'relief' to dying clients. Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant; these stories represent everything readers have come to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk."

Twenty-one stories and a novella that will disturb and delight, from the author of Fight Club. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display. In 'Zombies', the best and brightest of a high school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In 'Knock, Knock', a son hopes to tell one last off-colour joke to his dying father , while in 'Tunnel of Love', a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing 'relief' to dying clients. And in 'Excursion', Fight Club fans will be thrilled to find a side of Tyler Durden never seen before. Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant; these stories represent everything readers have come to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk.

« La première règle du fight club, c''est qu''on ne parle pas du fight club. » Tous les week-ends, dans certains endroits des États-Unis, des jeunes gens tout à fait comme il faut se mettent en petit

The bestselling author of Lullaby and Choke continues his twenty-first century reinvention of the horror novel in this homage to Rosemary''s Baby. Diary takes the form of a ''coma diary'' kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at art school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she''s been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses he''s refurbished and scrawling vile messages all over the walls - an old habit of builders but gone nuts on his part. Angry homeowners are suing left and right, and Misty''s dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. The canvases are taken away by her mother-in-law and her doctor, who seem to have a plan for Misty - and for all those annoying tourists...A dark, hilarious and, this time, poignant act of storytelling from America''s favourite, most inventive nihilist.

A newspaper reporter is investigating sudden infant death syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It''s a ''culling song'' - an ancient African spell for euthanizing sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally. He himself killed his own wife and child with the same poem, accidentally, twenty years earlier. Together, the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies of this book, and try not to kill every rude sonofabitch that gets in their way. Lullaby is a comedy/drama/tragedy. In that order. It''s also the best novel yet by an author whose following grows with every book.

Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who 'saves you' will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of cheques, week in, week out. Victor also works at a theme park with a motley group of losers, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his mother, whose Alzheimer's disease now hides what may be the startling truth about his parentage.