Make Something Up Stories You Can't Unread [Paperback]

Chuck Palahniuk, literature's favorite transgressive author, gives us twenty-one stories and one novella in Make Something Up, 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; and 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 to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk. You'll never forget them. Just try.Praise for Chuck Palahniuk and Make Something Up:


Palahniuk doesn't write for tourists. He writes for hard-core devotees drawn to the wild, angry imagination on display and the taboo-busting humor.
—The New York Times 
 
Palahniuk is a bracingly toxic purveyor of dread and mounting horror. He makes nihilism fun.
—Vanity Fair

“Palahniuk displays a Swiftian gift for satire, as well as a knack for crafting mesmerizing sentences.
—San Francisco Examiner

“Few contemporary writers mix the outrageous and the hilarious with greater zest.”
 —Newsday

Few authors have captured the pathologies of modern life quite like Palahniuk.
—Rocky Mountain News

“Chuck Palahniuk is one of the most intriguing writers of our time.”
—Tucson Citizen

For the first time, Palahniuk collects his short stories,li