Damned
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Blackstone Publishing , 2011.
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“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a marijuana overdose—and the next thing she knows, she’s in Hell. Madison shares her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that is almost too good to be true: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by fate to form the six-feet-under version of everyone’s favorite detention movie. Madison and her pals trek across the Dandruff Desert and climb the treacherous Mountain of Toenail Clippings to confront Satan in his citadel. All the popcorn balls and wax lips that serve as the currency of Hell won’t buy them off. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno where The English Patient plays on endless repeat, roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb, and the damned interrupt your dinner from their sweltering call center to hard-sell you Hell. He makes eternal torment, well, simply divine.
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eAudiobook
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Unabridged
Street Date
10/18/2011
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English
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9781481571586
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Palahniuk, C., & Sammons, T. (2011). Damned (Unabridged). Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Palahniuk, Chuck and Tai Sammons. 2011. Damned. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Palahniuk, Chuck and Tai Sammons. Damned Blackstone Publishing, 2011.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Palahniuk, C. and Sammons, T. (2011). Damned. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Palahniuk, Chuck, and Tai Sammons. Damned Unabridged, Blackstone Publishing, 2011.
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