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Stories you'll never forget—just try—from literature's favorite transgressive author
Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. In "Expedition," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precusor story to Fight Club. And in other stories, the absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep 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-color joke to a father in his final moments, while in "Tunnel of Love," a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing 'relief' to dying clients.
Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant; these stories represent everything readers have come to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk.
Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. In "Expedition," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precusor story to Fight Club. And in other stories, the absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep 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-color joke to a father in his final moments, while in "Tunnel of Love," a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing 'relief' to dying clients.
Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant; these stories represent everything readers have come to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780345807120 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 04/19/2016 |
Pages: | 336 |
Sales rank: | 121,249 |
Product dimensions: | 5.16(w) x 7.98(h) x 0.68(d) |
About the Author

CHUCK PALAHNIUK is the author of fourteen novels—Beautiful You, Doomed, Damned, Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Diary, Lullaby, Choke, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, and Fight Club—which have sold more than five million copies altogether in the United States. He is also the author of Fugitives and Refugees, published as part of the Crown Journey Series, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. Visit him on the web at chuckpalahniuk.net.
Hometown:
Portland, OregonDate of Birth:
February 21, 1962Place of Birth:
Pasco, WashingtonEducation:
B.A. in journalism, University of Oregon, 1986Website:
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Table of Contents
Knock-Knock 1
Eleanor 10
How Monkey Got Married, Bought a House, and Found Happiness in Orlando 18
Zombies 28
Loser 40
Red Sultan's Big Boy 50
Romance 70
Cannibal 80
Why Coyote Never Had Money for Parking 89
Phoenix 102
The Facts of Life 122
Cold Calling 129
The Toad Prince 136
Smoke 146
Torcher 149
Liturgy 176
Why Aardvark Never Landed on the Moon 182
Fetch 195
Expedition 211
Mister Elegant 232
Tunnel of Love 246
Inclinations 255
How a Jew Saved Christmas 310
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