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“Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned , Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Babette: A pretty, popular teenager girl who shares the cell next to Madison's in hell, the stereotypical cheerleader, prom queen-type
- Leonard: A demon-obsessed geek
- Goran: One of Madison's adoptive Third World siblings.
- Patterson: A stereotypical jock, football player.
- Madison Spencer: The protagonist of the story, a smart, overweight, thirteen-year-old girl
- Archer: A stereotypical punk with a blue Mohawk, miscellaneous piercings, and motorcycle attire
- Emily: A Canadian girl dying of AIDS
- Hitler: Leader of the Nazi party, whom Madison meets in Hell
- Jane Eyre: Fictional character much beloved by Madison Spencer
Quotes edit
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“No, it's not fair, but one man's god is another man's devil.”
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““Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,””
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“And no, I've never enjoyed an orgasm of my own, but I have read The Bridges of Madison County and The Color Purple, and if I learned nothing else from Alice Walker I learned that if you can help a woman discover the curative power of manipulating her own clitoris she'll serve as your loyal devotee and best friend forever.”
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“According to Babette, 98.3 percent of lawyers end up in Hell. That's in contrast to the 23 percent of farmers who are eternally damned. Some 45 percent of retail business owners are Hellbound, and 85 percent of computer software writers. Perhaps a trace number of politicians ascend to Heaven, but statistically speaking, 100 percent of them are cast into the fiery pit. As are essentially 100 percent of journalists and redheads. For whatever reason, people standing shorter than five-foot-one are more likely to be condemned. Also, people with a body mass index greater than 0.0012.”
Madison
First Sentence edit
Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Chuck Palahniuk (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-385-53302-7
Page Count: 247
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-385-53302-7
Page Count: 247
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PZ7 P1754 Dam 2011
- Dewey: 813
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