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«There are more plot ideas in Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby than some writers manage in a whole book»

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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. Les mer
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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.

Detaljer

Forlag
Vintage
Innbinding
Paperback
Språk
Engelsk
Sider
272
ISBN
9780099437963
Utgivelsesår
2003
Format
20 x 13 cm

Om forfatteren

Chuck Palahniuk is the bestselling author of fifteen fictional works, including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Rant, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned, Doomed, Beautiful You, and most recently Make Something Up. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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«There are more plot ideas in Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby than some writers manage in a whole book»

Independent

«Palahniuk starts with a throwaway thought - "what if words could hurt?" - and stretches it until it snaps»

Arena

«A black comic cauldron bubbling with contagious ideas»

Time Out

«Mr. Palahniuk further refines his ability to create parables that are as substantial as they are off-the-wall»

New York Times

«This is vintage Palahniuk: weird, creepy, twisted, upsetting, and ultimately a great read»

Library Journal

Kunders vurdering

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scarlett – 10.06.2009

– "Lullaby" er fortellingen om journalisten Carl Streator, som skriver en artikkel om krybbedød. I arbeidet med artikkelen oppdager han at alle ofrene hadde fått opplest et spesielt dikt kvelden før de døde - et dikt han selv leste for sin kone og sitt barn for 20 år siden, dagen før han fant dem døde i sengene sine. Carl bestemmer seg for å utrydde boken med det livsfarlige diktet, før andre oppdager dette enkle, men effektive drapsvåpenet. Bokens plot er i seg selv en genistrek, og man blir raskt revet med i historien. Chuck Palahniuk skriver som alltid veldig fengende og lettlest, og man drives videre i boken av en nysgjerrighet på hva som vil skje videre. Men, i motsetning til flere av forfatterens andre bøker, mangler den store "twisten" og "aha"-opplevelsen her; boken kan i så måte bli litt langtekkelig mot slutten. For all del: en bra bok, men neppe forfatterens beste verk.

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