New Releases by Chuck Palahniuk

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark, satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make in the face of an uncertain future. In Shock Induction, the best and brightest students at a seemingly reputable high school are disappearing. Every day it seems another overachiever is lost to an apparent suicide. But something far more sinister is lurking beneath the surface. These kids have been under surveillance since birth, monitored and measured by an online service called "Greener Pastures." It''s here, in Greener Pastures, that billionaires observe and recruit the next generation of talent. The highest test scores, the best grades, and the most niche extracurriculars just might land these teenagers an enticing offer at auction. A couple billion dollars in exchange for the remainder of your life and intellectual labor sounds like a pretty fair deal-doesn''t it? In a high school only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine, students must choose between the risk of following their dreams or the security of money and a lifetime of servitude to the world''s wealthiest and most elite-but how much of a choice do they truly have?

El autor de El club de la lucha sigue en la cúspide de sus poderes literarios: atrevido, desafiante y con un gran dominio del suspense, regresa con una novela sombría y espeluznante que reflexiona sobre la mercantilización del sufrimiento y el poder del arte. Han pasado diecisiete años desde que Gates Foster perdió a su hija Lucy y desde entonces no ha dejado de buscarla. Ahora, un impactante e inesperado suceso le proporciona la primera pista significativa después de una década, y todo apunta a que está a punto de descubrir una verdad terrible. Mientras tanto, Mitzi Ives ha logrado hacerse un hueco como ingeniera de sonido para la industria de Hollywood usando las mismas técnicas secretas que utilizaba su padre. Son especialmente célebres los horripilantes gritos que crea para el cine de terror, tan verosímiles y estremecedores que bien podrían ser reales. Cuando las vidas de Gates y Mitzi se crucen, saldrán a la luz los atroces y violentos secretos que se ocultan tras la glamurosa fachada de Hollywood.

A father searching for his missing daughter is suddenly given hope when a major clue is discovered, but learning the truth could shatter the seemingly perfect image Hollywood is desperate to uphold. Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago. He''s never stopped searching. Suddenly, a shocking new development provides Foster with his first major lead in over a decade, and he may finally be on the verge of discovering the awful truth. Meanwhile, Mitzi Ives has carved out a space among the Foley artists creating the immersive sounds giving Hollywood films their authenticity. Using the same secret techniques as her father before her, she''s become an industry-leading expert in the sound of violence and horror, creating screams so bone-chilling, they may as well be real. Soon Foster and Ives find themselves on a collision course that threatens to expose the violence hidden beneath Hollywood''s glamorous façade. A grim and disturbing reflection on the commodification of suffering and the dangerous power of art, The Invention of Sound is Chuck Palahniuk at the peak of his literary powers -- his most suspenseful, most daring, and most genre-defying work yet.

Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling. In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved authors and artists, with anecdotes, postcards from the road, and much more. Clear-eyed, sensitive, illuminating, and knowledgeable, Consider This is Palahniuk''s love letter to stories and storytellers, booksellers and books themselves. Consider it a classic in the making.

Marla Singer is about to deliver her second child, but the daddy isn''t her husband--it''s Tyler Durden, who''s very invested in his heir, and the world he''ll inherit. Marla, her first son, and her husband--the unnamed narrator in the novel, who now goes by Balthazar--live in a rundown motel with sketchy neighbors. In the FIGHT CLUB 2 graphic novel, Tyler transformed Project Mayhem into Rize or Die--now, as a road to paradise presents itself, a new group has implemented a ruthless and deviant plan to fine-tune mankind, leading Balthazar to forge an unlikely alliance . . . with Tyler Durden. Chuck Palahniuk writes the sequel to the sequel to Fight Club. Chuck Palahniuk & Cameron Stewart reunite!

New York Times Bestseller "An irreverent satirical fantasy about a sudden and violent upheaval.…Think Tom Robbins channeling Jonathan Swift." —David Takami, Seattle Times Adjustment Day is an ingenious darkly comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war to control the burgeoning population of young males, while working-class men dream of burying the elites. Adjustment Day’s arrival makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.

In his first long-form fiction since Beautiful You in 2014, the author of Fight Club and Choke delivers another biting social satire in this riches-to-rags novella! This hardcover edition features beautiful colorable illustrations by Steve Morris (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), who worked on Palahnuik''s Bait: Off-Color Stories for You to Color, and Mike Norton (Revival, Battlepug), with a cover by another Bait collaborator, Duncan Fegredo (Hellboy). Legacy is sure to engage readers with its boundary pushing story-telling while challenging their creative side through its visionary and twisted colorable imagery. An amoral investment banker named Vincent receives an inheritance promising immortality. Unfortunately for Vincent to obtain imortality he has to contend with a flame-retardant stripper, a ruthless stalker, and a bloodthirsty horde of other aspiring immortals dead set in their desire to separate Vincent from his destiny. Praise for Bait: Off-Color Stories for You to Color: "The conceit is a blast. Ingenious...Palahniuk likes to involve his readers, and maybe even have them be co-conspirators. I loved this book. It''s smart in a new way that deserves to be recognized. Congratulations once again to Palahniuk for showing us a new way to do things...and to make us involved."--FORCES OF GEEK "Chuck Palahniuk is pushing boundaries again."--COMICBOOK.COM

This limited edition hardcover in slipcase features 90 pages of bonus content and new cover art by David Mack. Some imaginary friends never go away . . . Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, he lives a mundane life. A kid, a wife. Pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it won''t last long, the wife has seen to that. He''s back where he started, but this go-round he''s got more at stake than his own life.The time has arrived . . . Rize or Die. New York Tomes bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk and acclaimed artist Cameron Stewart have collaborated for one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of 2015--the return of Tyler Durden. The first rule of Fight Club 2 might be not to talk about it, but Fight Club 2 is generating international headlines and will introduce a new generation of readers to Project Mayhem. Praise for the comics that comprise Fight Club 2: "At turns deeply poignant and very funny, Palahniuk''s freakish fables capture a twisted zeitgeist and add an oddly inspirational and subversive voice to the contemporary canon.... In the post-9/11 present, a hyperactive, Internet-obsessed, war- and recession-weary America apparently needs Tyler again."-THE ATLANTIC "The book is fantastic, my highest recommendation.... Excellent work by Cameron Stewart and David Mack, and by our awesome friends at Dark Horse Comics."-Brian Michael Bendis "If Tyler Durden needed a resurgence, there''s no time like the present for his return... Fight Club 2 is a comic that taps back into everything great about the source material, and one that makes Tyler Durden''s warm nihilistic embrace a welcome draw back into a familiar world of cynicism, violence, and anarchy...."Tyler Lives," and I couldn''t be happier by the prospect of more bedlam."-NEWSARAMA "Palahniuk is delivering a worthy sequel to his most beloved story."-THE NERDIST "Entertaining."-COMIC BOOK RESOURCES "Excellent."-THE BEAT "An amazing piece of work. You do not want to miss out on this."-COMICVINE "Perfect."-FORCES OF GEEK "We have a worthy sequel on our hands.... A must read."-COMICOSITY "Cameron Stewart truly outdoes himself on every level in this book."-BLOODY DISGUSTING "Clever and beautiful."-COMICS ALLIANCE

An all-new collection of short fiction from the author of Fight Club, that also doubles as an adult coloring book! New York Times bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk presents Bait: Off-Color Stories for You to Color, his first ever coloring book for adults. Bait is both the coloring book debut and the second short story collection for Palahniuk, author of Lullaby and Fight Club. The 8.5 x 11 inch hardcover album contains eight bizarre tales, illustrated in detailed black and white by Joëlle Jones (Lady Killer), Lee Bermejo (The Suiciders), Duncan Fegredo (Hellboy), and more. Each story is paired with pieces of colorable original art, nearly 50 in all! Palahniuk invites readers to collaborate on this unprecedented hardcover edition: "Maybe between your colors, the artists'' designs, and my stories we can create something that endures. Something worth keeping. Let''s create a well-bound book that can sit on any shelf and be available for a new generation to discover and enjoy." Palahniuk''s short stories are provocative and not for the faint of heart. (His public readings are notorious for making audience members pass out.) Kirkus Reviews described Palahniuk''s 2015 short story collection Make Something Up: Stories You Can''t Unread as "Pathos and panic and penitence from one of the darkest and most singular minds in contemporary American lit." Bait continues in that vein with stories about: A passenger on the Titanic who finds a surgical solution to the obstacle of "women and children first". A Hollywood star whose fading brand faces a viral (and scatological) internet campaign. An animal psychic who coaxes a statement from a fish that witnessed a political assassination. Increasingly terrible birthday gifts that place a girl at the center of an extinction-level event. Reviews for 2015''s Make Something Up: "Palahniuk finds sincerity among his characters even in disreputable occurrences."-- Publishers Weekly "He makes it absolutely clear that he''s still the man who wrote ''Guts,'' the infamous story that made fans pass out at readings." --Kirkus Reviews Reviews for Fight Club 2: "At turns deeply poignant and very funny, Palahniuk''s freakish fables capture a twisted zeitgeist and add an oddly inspirational and subversive voice to the contemporary canon . . . In the post-9/11 present, a hyperactive, Internet-obsessed, war- and recession-weary America apparently needs Tyler again."--The Atlantic "Chuck Palahniuk''s Fight Club 2 is as much a kinetic read as it is a pivotal watermark for the comic industry to receive such a high-profile cross-media debut. We are Jack''s eager eyes."--Paste

En esta descarada sátira social sobre el consumo de masas, Chuck Palahniuk vuelve a desafiar los límites de lo extremo, explorando las apocalípticas posibilidades del marketing para el placer femenino en un mundo en el que mil millones de maridos están a punto de ser reemplazados. Tras abandonar su Nebraska natal con la intención de triunfar como abogada en la Gran Manzana, Penny Harrigan se ha quedado estancada como chica de los cafés y los recados en un prestigioso bufete de abogados de Manhattan. Nunca ha dejado de ser una muchacha de pueblo, con un físico de lo más corriente y una vida amorosa nula. Por ello, Penny no da crédito a su suerte el día que la invita a cenar C. Linus Maxwell, reputado multimillonario y magnate del sector tecnológico, y un codiciado soltero de oro al que la prensa del corazón llama «el Gran Clímax». Bastará una primera cena en el restaurante más exclusivo de Manhattan para que Penny acabe en la habitación de un hotel de París, disfrutando de los inimaginables placeres que le proporcionan ciertos objetos diseñados por su nuevo amante. Pero el interés de Maxwell hacia Penny parece tener poco que ver con el romanticismo y mucho con una nueva línea de productos que ha de revolucionar la vida de las mujeres. Críticas: «Una opinión inteligente y satírica sobre la misoginia, la fama, el mundo de la moda, la autoayuda y la ciencia. [...] Nada es sagrado y todo es pasto de las llamas, desde la cultura popular al mundo de las celebridades.» USA today «Una vez más, Palahniuk sobrepasa los límites en esta sátira sobre el consumo de masas y el sexo.» Publishers Weekly «El retrato exagerado y grotesco que Palahniuk hace de la sociedad americana es todo menos agradable, pero aun así engancha irremediablemente.» The Times «El autor de El Club de la lucha nos ofrece una sátira social mordaz que deja en ridículo a la Lisístrata de Aristófanes; y que da mucho de qué hablar.» Library Journal «La legión de fans de Palahniuk van a adorar todos sus excesos» San Francisco Chronicle

The Explosive Finale! The most highly anticipated comics series of the year ends in the biggest way possiblethe whole world burns away according to Tylers plan, and a new one he never anticipated is conceived. The meek inherit the Earth, and a final showdown proves that, finally, Roland Barthes is right! Chuck Palahniuk writes the sequel to Fight Club! ÏFull of more surprises than a Cracker Jack box, its a great expansion of an already strange universe.ðFangoria

Tylers minions stow all the worlds treasures before they trigger Armageddonor as they call it, the Tranquility Gambit. Sebastian is forced to battle his own son as he and Marla rekindle their love. But once their family is reunited, theyre all buried alive in a huge salt cavern! Things are looking grim for everyone. Full of more surprises than a Cracker Jack box, its a great expansion of an already strange universe.ðFangoria

**Chuck Palahniuk writes the sequel to _Fight Club_!** Tyler''s been around a lot longer than anyone realized . . . To gain admittance to the current generation of Project Mayhem, Marla is more than happy to provide Sebastian with plenty of bruises, and thus, the search for their son begins . . . *One of IGN and io9''s Most Anticipated Comics of 2015! Ever wanted to know what happened to the anonymous narratorand his constant companion, Tyler Durdenof _Fight Club_? Thanks to writer Chuck Palahniuk, artist Cameron Stewart and Dark Horse Comics, you''ll get the answer in _Fight Club 2_.�Playboy

Twenty one stories and one novella from Chuck Palahniuk, literature''s favorite transgressive author, Make Something Up is 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, while 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

Después de Condenada , Chuck Palahniuk nos trae de vuelta a Madison Spencer, la adolescente muerta más vivaracha y mordaz del inframundo, en una aventura que la llevará a luchar contra el mismísimo diablo. Me llamo Madison Desert Flower Rosa Parks Coyote Trickster Spencer, y soy un fantasma. En otras palabras: ¡Bu! Tengo trece años y un poco de sobrepeso. En otras palabras: estoy muerta y encima gorda. Al finalizar el día de Halloween, los muertos que no regresen a tiempo al inframundo quedarán atrapados en el mundo de los vivos. Precisamente esto es lo que le ocurre a la adolescente muerta más mordaz y deslenguada del Infierno tras sus alocadas aventuras para enfrentarse al mismísimo diablo. Ahora, gracias a las confesiones sádicas y horripilantes de su blog personal en el limbo, descubriremos que Madison no llegó al Infierno por error o por casualidad, sino que fue condenada por las cosas terribles que hizo en vida. Y, por si fuera poco, Satanás, que desde el principio la tuvo en el punto de mira, pretende utilizarla para inaugurar con ella y sus célebres padres una era de condenación eterna en la Tierra. De la misma manera que en Condenada Chuck Palahniuk nos brindó, de lamano de esta intrépida adolescente, un Infierno magnífico y repugnante, en Maldita el provocativo autor nos ofrece su visión más oscura y retorcida del mundo donde vivimos y morimos. La crítica ha dicho... «Los fans de Palahniuk estarán entusiasmados.» Publisher''s Weekly «Realmente, el grotesco y exagerado retrato que hace Palahniuk de la sociedad norteamericana no es agradable, pero te agarra como el peor de los vicios.» The Times «Una excelente, divertida, inquietante y gratificante lectura, y, sinceramente,no puedo esperar a que llegue el tercero de la trilogía... Maddie es mi nueva heroína del Más Allá.» The Guardian «Aquellos que no se asusten por la impúdica ostentación de un sentido del humor escabroso ni por el rezumar de fluidos corporales encontrarán en Maldita una crítica satírica y cultural a la misma altura que su talento descarado y anárquico.» Nashville Scene

"A billion husbands are about to be replaced." From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of a new product that gives new meaning to the term "self-help." Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan''s most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed-of heights of gratification for days on end. What''s not to like? This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of feminine products to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called Beautiful You. So potent and effective are these devices that women by the millions line up outside the stores on opening day and then lock themselves in their room with them and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell''s plan for battery-powered world domination must be stopped. But how?

¿Adolescentes en el infierno? Del escritor más polémico de su generación, una novela de iniciación... después de la muerte de su protagonista. La versión más retorcida del infierno. Hija de una estrella de cine narcisista y de un multimillonario, una Navidad Madison es abandonada en un internado suizo mientras sus padres se dedican a impulsar sus nuevos proyectos y a adoptar huerfanitos. Entonces Madison muere por una sobredosis y lo siguiente que sabe es que está en el Infierno rodeada de un variopinto grupo de jóvenes pecadores demasiado bueno para ser cierto: una animadora, un deportista, un empollón y un rockero punk. Unidos por el destino, Madison y sus colegas tendrán que atravesar el Desierto de Caspa y cruzar el Valle de los Pañales Desechables Usados para enfrentarse a Satanás en su ciudadela, y nada podrá detenerlos. ¿Estás ahí, Satanás? Soy yo, Madison. Acabo de llegar aquí, al Infierno, pero no es culpa mía, salvo tal vez por el hecho de haberme muerto de una sobredosis de marihuana. Tal vez esté en el Infierno por ser gorda... Una auténtica foca. Si una puede ir al Infierno por tener la autoestima baja, entonces es por eso por lo que estoy aquí. Ojalá pudiera mentirte y decirte que estoy en los huesos y que soy rubia y tetuda. Pero, créeme, tengo mis razones para estar gorda. Para empezar, déjame que me presente. Reseñas: «Más importante aún es que Palahniuk conserve las facultades que hacen que le sigamos leyendo: sigue siendo divertido a matar, asqueroso cuando se le antoja [...], su lenguaje sigue siendo duro y elástico, sigue trabajando tanto las repeticiones casi musicales como los giros inesperados y, si le viene en gana, puede ser hilarante [...].» Kiko Amat, La Vanguardia «La decimosegunda novela de Palahniuk es tan alegremente obscena como cabría esperar, también es divertidísima [...]. Como novela de iniciación es dulce, inspiradora, está llena de esperanza; como sátira es divertida e irreverente, y está cargada de grandes dosis de entretenimiento.» Michael Schaub, NPR «En Condenada se dan algunas características de El club de la lucha: desafección juvenil, violencia, humor escatológico, una ambientación distópica, sátira cultural como deporte de riesgo... [...] Una aventura rocambolesca de proporciones swifteanas, un parque de atracciones del Infierno que muestra cómo una adolescente con sobrepeso consigue bajarle los humos al mismísimo Diablo.» Claude Peck, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Ninna Nanna è una raggelante parabola sul pericolo di infezioni psichiche in un''epoca di proliferazione spropositata dell''informazione. Ma è anche un thriller mozzafiato, con una trama ricca di suspence e di sorprese.

Madison Spencer, the liveliest and snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the afterlife adventure begun in Chuck Palahniuk’s bestseller Damned. Just as that novel brought us a brilliant Hell that only he could imagine, Doomed is a dark and twisted apocalyptic vision from this provocative storyteller. The bestselling Damned chronicled Madison’s journey across the unspeakable (and really gross) landscape of the afterlife to confront the Devil himself. But her story isn’t over yet. In a series of electronic dispatches from the Great Beyond, Doomed describes the ultimate showdown between Good and Evil. After a Halloween ritual gone awry, Madison finds herself trapped in Purgatory—or, as mortals like you and I know it, Earth. She can see and hear every detail of the world she left behind, yet she’s invisible to everyone who’s still alive. Not only do people look right through her, they walk right through her as well. The upside is that, no longer subject to physical limitations, she can pass through doors and walls. Her first stop is her parents’ luxurious apartment, where she encounters the ghost of her long-deceased grandmother. For Madison, the encounter triggers memories of the awful summer she spent upstate with Nana Minnie and her grandfather, Papadaddy. As she revisits the painful truth of what transpired over those months (including a disturbing and finally fatal meeting in a rest stop’s fetid men’s room, in which . . . well, never mind), her saga of eternal damnation takes on a new and sinister meaning. Satan has had Madison in his sights from the very beginning: through her and her narcissistic celebrity parents, he plans to engineer an era of eternal damnation. For everyone. Once again, our unconventional but plucky heroine must face her fears and gather her wits for the battle of a lifetime. Dante Alighieri, watch your back; Chuck Palahniuk is gaining on you.

Vorreste sapere dove si trovano attualmente le tonsille di Chuck Palahniuk? Oppure vi incuriosisce la storia del suo debutto in un videoclip su MTV ? E come si arriva all''Apocalypse Café? Le risposte si trovano su questa inedita guida alla città di Portland.

The career of a model ends when she is disfigured in an accident. Suspecting the accident was the work of her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend, she takes revenge by slipping him a drug to grow breasts.

Cavie è un romanzo composto da ventitré delle più terrificanti, comiche, avvincenti, stomachevoli storie che abbiate mai letto.

O clube da luta é idealizado por Tyler Durden, que acredita ter encontrado uma maneira de viver fora dos limites da sociedade e das regras sem sentido. Mas o que está por vir de sua mente pode piorar muito. O livro serviu de base para um filme de 1999, procurando adaptar a atmosfera do livro, o mundo caótico do personagem e o humor negro do autor.

**Chuck Palahniuk writes the sequel to _Fight Club_!** For the past decade Tyler Durden''s been sneaking out of Sebastian''s subconscious. Sebastian has a nice wife and a nice kid. He has a nice home in the suburbs. Nice-enough neighbors. Now all that''s going up like so much potassium permanganate. * Rize or Die! * One of IGN and io9''s Most Anticipated Comics of 2015! * Variant cover by Francesco Francavilla!