Lullaby: A Novel

by Chuck Palahniuk (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $17.49

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.44

  A journalist notices a link between a number of victims of cot death. All of the children had the same poem read to them the night before they died. The journalist sets out to find and destroy every copy of the book containing the accursed poem.

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $12.31

  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.