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Lullaby
Chuck Palahniuk
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Description for Lullaby
Paperback. A journalist notices a link between a number of victims of cot death. All of the children had the same poem read to them the night before they died. The journalist desperately fights to find all copies of the book containing the accursed poem. This title is by the author of "Fight Club". Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' - an ancient African spell for euthanizing sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally. He himself accidentally killed his own wife and child with the same poem twenty years earlier. Together, the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies ... Read more
Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' - an ancient African spell for euthanizing sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally. He himself accidentally killed his own wife and child with the same poem twenty years earlier. Together, the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099437963
SKU
V9780099437963
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About 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.
Reviews for Lullaby
There are more plot ideas in Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby than some writers manage in a whole book
Independent
Palahniuk starts with a throwaway thought - "what if words could hurt?" - and stretches it until it snaps
Arena
A black comic cauldron bubbling with contagious ideas
Time Out
Mr. Palahniuk further refines his ability ... Read more
Independent
Palahniuk starts with a throwaway thought - "what if words could hurt?" - and stretches it until it snaps
Arena
A black comic cauldron bubbling with contagious ideas
Time Out
Mr. Palahniuk further refines his ability ... Read more