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Madison, undici anni, figlia di una star del cinema e di un miliardario, è stata dimenticata per le vacanze di Natale nel suo collegio di iperlusso in Svizzera dai genitori. E così Madison riesce nella non facile impresa di morire per una overdose di marijuana. La ragazza non solo scopre di essere morta ma si rende conto di essere finita all'inferno con la non esaltante prospettiva di dovervi trascorrere l'eternità. Ma Madison è una ragazza pratica e decide che prima di tutto deve farsi degli amici, poi deve capire come funzionano le cose all'inferno e, infine, deve cercare di farselo piacere. In poco tempo stringe amicizia con un gruppetto di coetanei: una cheerleader, un secchione, un punkrocker e un giocatore di football. Con loro attraverserà il Deserto di Forfora e scalerà la Montagna delle Unghie Tagliate per arrivare alla città fortificata dove vive Satana...

Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of Pygmy, a thoroughly indoctrinated little killer who hates America with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire.

En répondant à cette mystérieuse annonce, les vingt-trois protagonistes d'A l'estomac s'imaginaient couler des jours tranquilles dans un endroit de rêve. Oui, mais voilà, l'endroit en question, un th

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. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively.

Every word hes written about me is a lie including "and" and "the"...For decades Hazie Coogan has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine Miss Kathie Kenton, a star of the wattage of Elizabeth Taylor and the emotional torments of Judy Garland.

A series of dispatches written in fractured and occasionally hilarious English suck readers into the mind of exchange student and would-be terrorist Pygmy.In this wildly experimental text, Palahniuk (Snuff, 2008, etc.) creates such a compelling character in Pygmy that we accept the boy''s biases and epithets as completely appropriate. He arrives in the United States with a strong accent and a strong distaste for everything American, including his host family: vast cow father, pig dog brother, chicken mother, and cat sister. While planning his rather murky act of terrorism (Code Name: Operation Havoc), Pygmy begins to accommodate himself to American life, especially high school. Along with other social losers, he represents the United States in a model UN conference, unaccountably wins a spelling bee and takes part in a science fair during which the plants in a competing hydroponics garden are exposed as marijuana. (Sabotage successful, he writes.) Trying, like many of us, to make sense of contemporary American life, Pygmy fails because so much of popular culture is short on logic and meaning. His take on what the customs agent assures him is the greatest country on earth? Snake nest. American den of evil. Hive of corruption. His perception of the educational system? Primary function introduce partners for reproduction. His take on a girl at a school dance? Specimen female, permit perform mating dance prior generate human embryo? Pygmy loves to quote leaders he admires, such as Adolf Hitler: It is not truth that matters, but victory. And while his machinations eventually destroy his American family, not even the disclosure that Pygmy is a terrorist can get much of a rise out of his host sister, who has the typical adolescent reaction: Whatever.Stylistically exhilarating but not for every taste. (Kirkus Reviews)

Pygmy is a dark comedy about terrorism and racism. The lead character is a 13-year-old foreign exchange student sent to live with a suburban, white, middle-class family. Oh, and they're Christians. The visit is for six months, and he's one of a dozen similar kids, all shipped to America to live with typical families. The secret truth is that Pygmy is a terrorist, trained since infancy in martial arts, chemistry and radical hatred of the United States. He has six months to build a prize-winning project for the National Science Fair. If he succeeds, he and his project will go to Washington, D.C. for the finals competition -- where the project will explode, killing millions.

During Istanbul's tumultuous 1970s, Kemal Bey, 30-year-old son of an upper-class family, walks readers through a lengthy catalogue of trivial objects, which, though seeming mundane, hold memories of his life's most intimate, irretrievable moments. The main focus of Kemal's peculiar collection of earrings, ticket stubs and drinking glasses is beloved Füsun, his onetime paramour and longtime unrequited love. An 18-year-old virginal beauty, modest shopgirl and poor distant relation, Füsun enters Kemal's successful life just as he is engaged to Sibel, a very special, very charming, very lovely girl.

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 A-list to the Z-list. A merciless send-up of of Lillian Hellman''s habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond. Our narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine ''Miss Kathie'' Kenton, a star of the wattage of Elizabeth Taylor and the emotional torments of Judy Garland. The survivor of multiple marriages, career comebacks and cosmetic surgeries, Miss Kathie lives the way legends should. But danger lurks when gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III arrives and worms his way into Miss Kathie''s heart and boudoir. Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written his celebrity tell-all memoir and that it foretells

La terrorífica biografía de un personaje igualmente terrorífico. Buster Casey, un chico rebelde adicto a los videojuegos —además de un asesino—, escapa de casa de sus padres y se convierte en el líde

Une partouze géante au fin fond de l''Ouest américain, un combat de moissonneuses-batteuses, une expédition en sous-marin nucléaire, la construction d''un château en béton, un face-à-face improbable

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.