This is a cover for the first edition of Chuck Palahniuk's book "Lullaby". It depicts a bird that is either turned upside down or lying knocked out and painted yellow on a white background. And nothing else because minimalism up yours. The cover perfectly illustrates the plot of book - quest for the book with a killing lullaby. On its own, it is one of those covers that are ambiguous enough to evoke something inherently sarcastic.
You can go all down with various suggestions over what exactly caused the bird being in that position. In fact - you can construct entire storylines around this images. It is totally worth it.
The book itself is messy but strangely satisfying pulp comedy of menace. "Lullaby" is probably my favorite Palahniuk. The structure is airtight although it turns out there are many cracks and lots of goo pours out. That is part of the books charm. It got more tone shifts than "On the corner" got time changes and after a while it becomes really tiring. But it moves fast enough to make it mostly passable. For the most part it is just too over the top for its own good. However, the barebones plot structure is quite engaging - you go from one scene to another and things get weird only in a slightest bit which makes it oddly relatable.
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