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Lullaby.
by Chuck Palahniuk
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0385722192
- ISBN 13
- 9780385722193
- Seller
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Oregon City, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY Random House: Anchor Books, 2003. Paperback First Edition Thus (2003), so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First Edition Thus (2003), so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Near Fine in Wraps: the white front panel shows the barest hint of smudging; a couple of barely discernible stress creases to the middle of the rear panel; the text pages show a hint of tanning, due to aging; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome, like-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing no flaws. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8 x 5.25 x 0.6 inches). 206 pages. Language: English. Weight: 6.7 ounces. Trade Paperback. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Synopsis
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for our times.Carl Streator is a solitary widower and a fortyish newspaper reporter who is assigned to do a series of articles on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. In the course of this investigation he discovers an ominous thread: the presence at the death scenes of the anthology Poems and Rhymes Around the World, all opened to the page where there appears an African chant, or "culling song." This song turns out to be lethal when spoken or even thought in anyone's direction--and once it lodges in Streator's brain he finds himself becoming an involuntary serial killer. So he teams up with a real estate broker, one Helen Hoover Boyle--who specializes in selling haunted (or "distressed") houses (wonderfully high turnover), and who lost a child to the culling song years before--for a cross-country odyssey to remove all copies of the book from libraries, lest this deadly verbal virus spread and wipe out human life. Accompanying them on this road trip are Helen's assistant, Mona Sabbat, an exquisitely earnest Wiccan, and her sardonic ecoterrorist boyfriend Oyster, who is running a scam involving fake liability claims and business blackmail. Welcome to the new nuclear family.On one level, Lullaby is a chillingly pertinent parable about the dangers of psychic infection and control in an era of wildly overproliferated information: "Imagine a plague you catch through your ears . . . imagine an idea that occupies your mind like a city." But it is also a tightly wound thriller with an intriguing premise and a suspenseful plot full of surprising twists and turns. Finally, because it is a Chuck Palahniuk novel, it is a blackly comic tour de force that reinforces his stature as our funniest nihilist and a contemporary seer.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Seller
- Black Cat Hill Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 55522
- Title
- Lullaby.
- Author
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus (2003), so stated. First Printing indicated b
- ISBN 10
- 0385722192
- ISBN 13
- 9780385722193
- Publisher
- Random House: Anchor Books,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2003.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Lit Criticism and Theory; Essays; English Lit; Prose & Criticism; Literature; Literary History; Prose; Belles Lettres;
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