Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Palahniuk, Chuck |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 7/29/2003 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for our times.
“A harrowing and hilarious glimpse into the future of civilization.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Ever heard of a culling song?It’s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless deathto the old or lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or evenjust can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World,an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country, waitingto be picked up by unsuspecting readers.
Reporter Carl Streator discovers the song’slethal nature while researching Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and before he knowsit, he’s reciting the poem to anyone who bothers him. As the body count rises, Streatorglimpses the potential catastrophe if someone truly malicious finds out about thesong. The only answer is to find and destroy every copy of the book in the by a shady real-estate agent, her Wiccan assistant, and the assistant’struly annoying ecoterrorist boyfriend, Streator begins a desperate cross-countryquest to put the culling song to rest.
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