Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter, and dark, anarchic genius, and it's only the beginning of his plans for revenge on a world where cancer support groups have the corner on human warmth. As the narrator of Fight Club puts it: If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. Where does Tyler Durden come from? Why do his violent schemes so capture the troubled, insomniac narrator? What events bring them to the roof of the world's tallest building, wired to explode in ten minutes? What will the end of the millennium feel like? Readers of Chuck Palahniuk's brilliantly apocalyptic and unnerving first novel are going to find out.
"An astonishing debut…Fight Club is a dark, unsettling, and nerve-chafing satire" -- Seattle Times
"A volatile, brilliantly creepy satire." -- Washington Post
"A powerful, dark, original novel. This is a memorable debut by an important writer." -- Robert Stone
"Fight Club is hot. It’s great. Even I can’t write this well." -- Thom Jones
"This brilliant bit of nihilism succeeds where so many self-described transgressive novels do not: It’s dangerous because it’s so compelling." -- Kirkus Reviews
"A noir fable with a punch…A genuine, two-fisted talent." -- Katherine Dunn
"Amazing and artful disturbance. Fight Club is for everybody who thinks and loves the fine American language." -- Barry Hannah
"Irresistible…As with chocolate or pornography, you struggle to savor it slowly, yet feel compelled to zip through its smart, atomic, nightmarish world. A visionary novel of beautiful violence and creepy intensity." -- Scott Heim
"Palahniuk’s utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice." -- Publishers Weekly
"A ferocious, taut, mesmerizing novel whose economical stylishness and rigorous, perverse philosophical underpinnings put one in mind of Camus’ The Stranger and J. G. Ballard’s Crash." -- Dennis Cooper
"A volatile, brilliantly creepy satire." -- Washington Post
"A powerful, dark, original novel. This is a memorable debut by an important writer." -- Robert Stone
"Fight Club is hot. It’s great. Even I can’t write this well." -- Thom Jones
"This brilliant bit of nihilism succeeds where so many self-described transgressive novels do not: It’s dangerous because it’s so compelling." -- Kirkus Reviews
"A noir fable with a punch…A genuine, two-fisted talent." -- Katherine Dunn
"Amazing and artful disturbance. Fight Club is for everybody who thinks and loves the fine American language." -- Barry Hannah
"Irresistible…As with chocolate or pornography, you struggle to savor it slowly, yet feel compelled to zip through its smart, atomic, nightmarish world. A visionary novel of beautiful violence and creepy intensity." -- Scott Heim
"Palahniuk’s utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice." -- Publishers Weekly
"A ferocious, taut, mesmerizing novel whose economical stylishness and rigorous, perverse philosophical underpinnings put one in mind of Camus’ The Stranger and J. G. Ballard’s Crash." -- Dennis Cooper
Chuck Palahniuk is the best-selling author of more than eighteen fictional works, including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Rant, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned, Doomed, Beautiful You and The Invention of Sound. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780393355949 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393355942 |
| Title | Fight Club |
| Author | Chuck Palahniuk |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2018-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Winner of Oregon Book Award 1997 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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