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Make Something Up

  • 336 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2015
  • 11 editions

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1 About this book

"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.

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. And in "Excursion," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precusor story to Fight Club. Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant; these stories represent everything readers have come to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk.

Good for readers who want: humor and satire.

  • Humor
  • Satire
  • Short stories

2 About Chuck Palahniuk

Born 1962

Charles Michael Palahniuk (; PAW-lə-nick; Ukrainian pronunciation:, born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist who describes his work as transgressive fiction. He has published 19 novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, and two adult coloring books, as well as several short stories. His first published novel, Fight Club, was adapted into a film of the same title.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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