That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother – the plot of Choke – while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. Damned is vintage Chuck – as dark as it gets, but with loads of gross-out humour, all your favourite dead celebs, and plenty of grim details of the Inferno’s unmentionable horrors, such as being forced to watch The English Patient over and over again.ĭazed & Confused: So why did you decide to write a novel set in hell?Ĭhuck Palahniuk: In 2008, while the film version of my book Choke was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. For his next trick, Palahniuk has cooked up a raucous new novel that’s narrated by a 13-year-old girl who has died and gone to hell. He’s kept himself busy writing 11 novels, a collection of short stories and two acclaimed books of non-fiction, amassing an army of die-hard fans in the process.
Since the publication of his hard-hitting, hard-kicking, hard-biting-and-scratching debut novel Fight Club in 1996, Chuck Palahniuk has steadily slogged his way into the big league of bestselling American literary novelists.
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