Author:Chuck Palahniuk
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 of this book, and try not to kill every rude sonofabitch that gets in their way. Lullaby is a comedy/drama/tragedy. In that order. It may also be Chuck Palahniuk's best book yet.
There are more plot ideas in Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby than some writers manage in a whole book
—— IndependentPalahniuk starts with a throwaway thought - "what if words could hurt?" - and stretches it until it snaps
—— ArenaA black comic cauldron bubbling with contagious ideas
—— Time OutMr. Palahniuk further refines his ability to create parables that are as substantial as they are off-the-wall
—— New York TimesThis is vintage Palahniuk: weird, creepy, twisted, upsetting, and ultimately a great read
—— Library JournalNot least among Mervyn Peake's virtues was his ability to be serious while involved in grotesque humour, and to be idiosyncratic while being completely professional. And that drawing was the essential of all he did
—— Quentin BlakeA wonderful story, a saga of somewhere strange that beats Tolkien into a cocked hat. Superb language and extraordinary imagination
—— Ranulph Fiennes'The Drowning Girl' was inspired by Peake... Fushia was my dream. The idea of the infinite, of the unreal, of the innocence dying
—— Robert Smith, The CureGripping debut
—— GlamourI just finished the most fantastic gripping book, the Mistress’s Revenge by Tamar Cohen. I had to keep going to bed early to read it, it’s amazing!
—— Lisa JewellJoseph Conrad said that fiction is primarily a visual art; he would have loved Zachary Lazar's Sway for the thousand indelible visual details of a startling originality - and for Lazar's ability to shine a light into the contemporary heart of darkness
—— Edmund WhiteA hilarious and compelling read
—— Good Housekeeping
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