An all-new collection of short fiction from the author of Fight Club,
that also doubles as an adult coloring book!
New York Times bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk presents Bait:
Off-Color Stories for You to Color, his first ever coloring book for
adults. Bait is both the coloring book debut and the second short
story collection for Palahniuk, author of Lullaby and Fight Club.
The 8.5 x 11 inch hardcover album contains eight bizarre tales,
illustrated in detailed black and white by Joëlle Jones (Lady Killer),
Lee Bermejo (The Suiciders), Duncan Fegredo (Hellboy), and more.
Each story is paired with pieces of colorable original art, nearly 50 in
all!
Palahniuk invites readers to collaborate on this unprecedented hardcover
edition: Maybe between your colors, the artists' designs, and my
stories we can create something that endures. Something worth keeping.
Let's create a well-bound book that can sit on any shelf and be
available for a new generation to discover and enjoy.
Palahniuk's short stories are provocative and not for the faint of
heart. (His public readings are notorious for making audience members
pass out.) Kirkus Reviews described Palahniuk's 2015 short story
collection Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread as Pathos and
panic and penitence from one of the darkest and most singular minds in
contemporary American lit.
Bait continues in that vein with stories about:
A passenger on the Titanic who finds a surgical solution to the obstacle
of women and children first. A Hollywood star whose fading brand faces a
viral (and scatological) internet campaign. An animal psychic who coaxes
a statement from a fish that witnessed a political assassination.
Increasingly terrible birthday gifts that place a girl at the center of
an extinction-level event.
Reviews for 2015's Make Something Up
Palahniuk finds sincerity among his characters even in disreputable
occurrences.-- Publishers Weekly
He makes it absolutely clear that he's still the man who wrote 'Guts, '
the infamous story that made fans pass out at readings. --Kirkus
Reviews
Reviews for Fight Club 2:
At turns deeply poignant and very funny, Palahniuk's freakish fables
capture a twisted zeitgeist and add an oddly inspirational and
subversive voice to the contemporary canon . . . In the post-9/11
present, a hyperactive, Internet-obsessed, war- and recession-weary
America apparently needs Tyler again.--The Atlantic
Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club 2 is as much a kinetic read as it is a
pivotal watermark for the comic industry to receive such a high-profile
cross-media debut. We are Jack's eager eyes.--Paste
