Lullaby: A Novel
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Carl Streator, a 40-something widower and newspaper reporter, has lived a reclusive life since the death of his wife. His latest assignment is to write a series of articles on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. In doing so, he discovers that there is an underlying commonality in the deaths. A children's book, Poems and Rhymes Around the World, containing an African Death chant, is found at the scene of the cases he investigates. Having read the chant aloud, he quickly realizes the lethal power of the words. As he fights against its powerful grip, which has turned him into a serial killer, he enlists the aid of some eccentric compatriots who vow to rid every library and bookstore of the deadly text before further lives are jeopardized. But what begins as a crusade to save lives soon becomes the ultimate game of cat and mouse, as they uncover the truth about the rhyme and are hunted by the force holding Streator captive.
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display_description | 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 death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You 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, waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting readers. Reporter Carl Streator discovers the song’s lethal nature while researching Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and before he knows it, he’s reciting the poem to anyone who bothers him. As the body count rises, Streator glimpses the potential catastrophe if someone truly malicious finds out about the song. The only answer is to find and destroy every copy of the book in the country. Accompanied by a shady real-estate agent, her Wiccan assistant, and the assistant’s truly annoying ecoterrorist boyfriend, Streator begins a desperate cross-country quest to put the culling song to rest. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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publishDate | 2002 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | Incantations -- Fiction Journalists -- Fiction Sudden infant death syndrome -- Fiction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Lullaby A Novel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Lullaby A Novel Lullaby [electronic resource] / Chuck Palahniuk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Lullaby | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | A Novel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Fiction Horror Incantations Journalists Literature Sudden infant death syndrome |