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Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection by Chuck Palahniuk
Subgenres:
- Transgressive Fiction,
- Dark Humor
This book is for you if you're into...
- Short stories that blend the bizarre with dark humor
- Transgressive takes on life, death, and taboo desires
- Characters chasing meaning through absurd, sometimes shocking situations
Twenty one stories and one novella from Chuck Palahniuk, literature's favorite transgressive author, Make Something Up is a compilation that disturbs and delights in equal measure.
In "Expedition," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor 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
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