- Published: 18 September 2012
- ISBN: 9780099552598
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $22.99
Damned
- Published: 18 September 2012
- ISBN: 9780099552598
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $22.99
The vistas of his underworld are engrossing
Metro
Vintage chuck - as dark as it gets
Dazed
The hip, flip prose skips along invoking and ridiculing pop culture
The List
The Lovely Bones meets The Shawshank Redemption via Judy Blume. Expect to be appalled
Vogue
Damned is highly imaginative and downright funny, representing Chuck Palahniuk at his satirical, twisted best
Liverpool Post
True to Palahniuk form, Damned is gross in parts, scandalous in others and funny throughout
Time Out
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
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
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
Very funny
William Leith, Metro
An almost divine comedy that conjures up an underworld whose sinners are more likely to be guilty of sartorial, not satanic, misdemeanors
Emma Hagestadt, Independent
Very funny
William Leith, Scotsman