Diary

a novel

260 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2003 by Doubleday.

ISBN:
978-0-385-50947-3
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Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she's now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn't stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they've found on the walls of houses he remodeled.Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives. What unfolds is a dark, hilarious story from America's most inventive nihilist, and Palahniuk's most impressive work to date.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Subjects

  • Women painters -- Fiction
  • Suicidal behavior -- Fiction
  • Coma -- Patients -- Fiction
  • Married women -- Fiction
  • Contractors -- Fiction
  • Islands -- Fiction