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LULLABY
by Palahniuk, Chuck
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine unclipped dj.
- ISBN 10
- 0385504470
- ISBN 13
- 9780385504478
- Seller
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Derry, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 2002. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine unclipped dj.. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed & dated by Palahniuk on the title page. Horror-satire novel by the author of FIGHT CLUB and CHOKE. Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. 8vo boards. PLEASE NOTE that all our First Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers.
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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- Bookseller
- Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50714
- Title
- LULLABY
- Author
- Palahniuk, Chuck
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine unclipped dj.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385504470
- ISBN 13
- 9780385504478
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- fiction, signed, mmb
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About the Seller
Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Derry, New Hampshire
About Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC
Modern first editions - mainly American and English - many of the books being signed; poetry, poetry broadsides, and press books. Most of our holdings are modern and fairly contemporary, and feature both mainstream and genre fiction (e.g. contemporary literature, detective & science fiction), with emphasis on notable writers and literary prize-winners in both prose and poetry.
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