Damned
Chuck Palahniuk
Doubleday Canada
<p>Think adolescence is hell? You have no idea... Welcome to Dante's Inferno, by way of <i>The Breakfast Club</i>, from the mind of American fiction's most brilliant troublemaker.<br><br>"Death, like life, is what you make out of it." So says Madison, the whip-tongued 11-year-old narrator of <b>Damned</b>, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive homage to the young adult genre. Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off touting their new film projects and adopting more orphans. Over the holidays she dies of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in Hell.<br><br>This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno inspired by both the most extreme and mundane of human evils, where <i>The English Patient</i> plays on repeat and roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb. However, underneath Madison's sad teenager affect there is still a child struggling to accept not only the events of her...</br></br></br></br></p>