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Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk

 
Description: ISBN 0099285444 / Author: Chuck Palahniuk / Genre: Fiction / A fashion model with everything is disfigured in a road accident and goes ... more
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk ... from being the beautiful centre of attention to being a monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. She then has to learn that reinventing herself means erasing her past and making up something better.

Newest Review: ... with her best friend Evie Cottrell, a fellow model, who stole her boyfriend from her, following the shooting, and ends up ... more

 ... hitting the road with her kidnapped ex-boyfriend, Manus, and Brandy. As the book begins, several months after the "accident", the narrator is at Evie Cottrell's wedding reception, and Evie's happy day has gone somewhat awry. The narrator stands at the bottom of a staircase, alongside the recently-shot body of Brandy Alexander, looking up at the smoking rifle held by Evie, as the building burns around the three of them. H...more

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Crowned Review Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk: When Brandy Alexander met Hewlett Packard (1167 words)
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'Invisible Monsters' is another of Chuck Palahniuk's post-'Fight Club' novels, recently reprinted by Vintage Press. In Palahniuk's agent's words, where 'Fight Club' is "hyper macho", 'Invisible Monsters' is "hyper-camp", and this is a pretty reasonable description. Where the cast of 'Fight Club' are almost entirely male, the main characters of 'Invisible Monsters' are female, and where the former is aggressive direct prose, the latter is more indirect, reminiscent of fashion magazines. In fact, Palahniuk says that he wrote a draft of the book several years before its publication, while ...  Read the complete review

 

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