![]() ![]() Invisible Monsters is a soap opera wrapped in a mystery, an enigma swaddled in a Bret Easton Ellis nightmare.” And his characters aren’t so much likable as begrudgingly infectious, plasti-beautiful not so much contradictions of crazy and genius as crazy and cursed with extreme swings of fate. “Palahniuk is either crazy or genius-his wildly inventive plotlines are from so far left field they might as well be lobbed from outer space his language is quick and clever and impossibly honest and nasty (serrated, not graphic) his style-this time jumping through chronological time like a nervous whippet-breaks all rules and conventions, like he never even learned them. ![]() “Palahniuk’s slyly humorous character sketches keep pages turning.” A wildly plotted, quick-read showcase of his hip, perverse humor and dark imagination.” “Invisible Monsters could scare the tights off the ratings board…. Palahniuk succeeds in cutting open each character, transforming each one in a way only his clever mind could invent.” Palahniuk’s sentence structure, rhythm and comic timing rattle off the tongue like snapping gum…. “A twisted soap opera that not only desensitized individuals should find hilarious…. Gutsy, terse and cunning, Invisible Monsters may emerge as Palahniuk’s strongest book.” “A harrowing, perverse, laugh-aloud funny rocket ride of catastrophes…. Incredibly, Invisible Monsters makes the author’s jarring first novel, Fight Club, seem like a leisurely buggy ride.” They hurtle headlong, changing lanes in threes and banging off the guard rails of modern fiction. And that salvation hides in the last places you’ll ever want to look.ĬHUCK PALAHNIUK is the author of Diary and the best-selling novels Fight Club, Survivor, Choke, and Lullaby. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better. But when a sudden freeway “accident” leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. She’s a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. ![]()
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