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She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she is transformed from the beautiful center of attention to an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Evie Cottrell: Past friend of Shannons; a supermodel that she grew up with.
- Shannon McFarland: Former fashion model, narrator. The narrator goes by many different names.
- Shane: Shannon's older brother, injured by a hairspray can at 15.
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- Valarie: After *no name* gets shot in her face she tries to survive with a group of friends, are they really frineds?
- Mann
- Kopf
- Alfa
- Frau
- Ellis
- Katherine: nurse
- Hals
- Dann
- Mr. Parker
- Praxis Der Sprachtherapeutin
- Ende
- Schleier
- Spiegel
- Meine Mom
- Geld
- Brandys
- Fenster
- Vater
- Bett
- Geschichte
- Zimmer
- Stirn
- Knie
- Strumpf
- Rhea
- Boden
- Polizei
- Meine Mutter
- Sommer
- Schätzchen
- Rona Barrett
- Blick
- Herz
- Rauch
- Seide
- Das Feuer
- Menge
- Danke
- Familie
- Weise
- Brandy Alexander: A transsexual Shannon meets during her stay in the hospital who is only one operation away from becoming a woman. Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme encourages Shannon to hide her disfigurement and attempt to live a new lifestyle.
- Evelyn "Evie" Cottrell: Shannon's former best friend. Had an affair with Manus Kelley.
- Manus Kelley: Shannon's ex-fiancé, a police officer who is sexually confused.
- The Rhea Sisters: Three drag queens who are paying for The Queen Supreme's sex change operation.
- Shane McFarland: Shannon's older brother.
- Miss MacIsaac
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Sam Rockwell
- Daisy
- Jennifer Grey
- Kitty Litter
- Billy Zane
- Tom Spanbauer
- Kate Winslet
- Mr. Baxter
- Bill Paxton
- Monica Drake
- Franz
- Miss Arden Scotia
- Amy Hempel
- Harper Collins
- Clark Gregg
- Leslie
- Vivienne Westwood
- Santa Claus
- Gwen
- Anjelica Huston
- Perry Como
- Kelly Macdonald
- Marilyn Monroe
- Sofonda Peters
- Judy Garland
- David Foster Wallace
- Abraham Lincoln
- Joseph Merrick
- Robin
Quotes edit
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“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
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“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
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“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”
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“Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.”
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“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.”
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No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention.
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Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.
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Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
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When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
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The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
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“When you understand,” Brandy says, “that what you’re telling is just a story. It isn’t happening anymore. When you realize the story you’re telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan,” Brandy says, “then we’ll figure out who you’re going to be.”
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I’m an invisible monster, and I’m incapable of loving anybody. You don’t know which is worse.
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It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
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Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We’re all such products.
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It’s a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren’t we all?
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First Sentence edit
Where you're supposed to be is some big West Hills wedding reception in a big manor house with flower arrangements and stuffed mushrooms all over the house.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Chuck Palahniuk (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Norton
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0393319296
Page Count: 278
Publisher: Norton
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0393319296
Page Count: 278
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3566.A4554
- Dewey: 813.54
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