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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.

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 avec Marilyn Manson, les promenades d'un escort boy avec un malade en phase terminale : autant d'évocations d'une Amérique déjantée dont Chuck Palahniuk s'est fait le chroniqueur. Dans ce recueil d'histoires vraies où se mêlent subversion, tendresse, humour décapant et exhibitionnisme, il démontre combien la réalité peut dépasser l'imagination et dévoile ainsi l'envers du décor de ses romans. Il nous fait découvrir une autre Amérique, dont les héros illuminés ne sont pas si éloignés de nous. On ne ressort pas indemne de ce voyage au bout du bizarre et du tragique.

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...

Els caps de setmana, a soterranis i aparcaments, joves oficinistes es treuen les camises i lluiten entre ells fins a l'exte-nuació. Els dilluns tornen als seus despatxos amb els ulls plens de blaus, alguna dent menys i un sentiment embria-gador d'omnipote

Stories you'll never forget - just try - from literature's most transgressive author.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.

A billion husbands are about to be replaced.From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more...Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka 'Climax-Well', a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed of heights of orgasmic pleasure for days on end. What's not to like?This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of sex toys to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called 'Beautiful You'. So potent and effective are these devices that women line up in their millions outside the stores on opening day then lock themselves in their room and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell's plan for erotically enabled world domination must be stopped. But how?

Sa mort et son arrivée aux enfers, Madison, treize ans, les prend sereinement. Le seul souci pour elle, c'est de ne pas savoir exactement ce qui lui est arrivé. Pour cette fille moche mais intelli

Madison Spencer, the liveliest and snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the afterlife adventure begun in Chuck Palahniuk's bestseller Damned. Just as that novel brought us a brilliant Hell that only Palahniuk could imagine, Doomed is a dark and twisted apocalyptic vision from this provocative storyteller.The bestselling Damned chronicled Madison's journey across the unspeakable (and really gross) landscape of the afterlife to confront the Devil himself. But her story isn't over yet. In a series of electronic dispatches from the Great Beyond, Doomed describes the ultimate showdown between Good and Evil.After a Halloween ritual gone awry, Madison finds herself trapped in Purgatory or, as mortals like you and I know it, Earth. She can see and hear every detail of the world she left behind, yet she's invisible to everyone who's still alive. Not only do people look right through her, they walk right through her as well. The upside is that, no longer subject to physical limitations, she can pass through doors and walls. Her first stop is her parents' luxurious apartment, where she encounters the ghost of her long-deceased grandmother. For Madison, the encounter triggers memories of the awful summer she spent upstate with Nana Minnie and her grandfather, Papadaddy. As she revisits the painful truth of what transpired over those months, her saga of eternal damnation takes on a new and sinister meaning. Madison has been in Satan's sights from the very beginning, as through her and her narcissistic celebrity parents he plans to engineer an era of eternal damnation. For everyone.Once again, our unconventional but plucky heroine must face her fears and gather her wits for the battle of a lifetime. Dante Alighieri, watch your back; Chuck Palahniuk is gaining on you.

From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more...Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka 'Climax-Well', a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed of heights of orgasmic pleasure for days on end. What's not to like?This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of sex toys to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called 'Beautiful You'. So potent and effective are these devices that women line up in their millions outside the stores on opening day then lock themselves in their room and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell's plan for erotically enabled world domination must be stopped. But how?