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  • Published: 1 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409041290
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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Damned




A dark, disturbing and very, very funny new novel from the inimitable Chuck Palahniuk - his best yet.

'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.

  • Published: 1 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409041290
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
Categories:

About the author

Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk is the bestselling author of fifteen fictional works, including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Rant, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned, Doomed, Beautiful You, and, most recently, Make Something Up. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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Praise for Damned

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

The Lovely Bones meets The Shawshank Redemption via Judy Blume. Expect to be appalled

Vogue

A dark but funny novel about a 13-year-old girl's journey through hell

Grazia

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

Damned is highly imaginative and downright funny, representing Chuck Palahniuk at his satirical, twisted best

Liverpool Post

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

The hip, flip prose skips along invoking and ridiculing pop culture

The List

The vistas of his underworld are engrossing

Metro

True to Palahniuk form, Damned is gross in parts, scandalous in others and funny throughout

Time Out

Very funny

William Leith, Metro

Very funny

William Leith, Scotsman

Vintage chuck - as dark as it gets

Dazed