Among other matters both bizarre and trenchant. He’ll even share his insight that ‘the only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage,’ and deny responsibility for the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Landfill a 20,000 acre repository for the nation’s outdated po*rnography.
Before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child and humble domestic servant to an ultra buffed, and collagen packed media messiah, author of a best selling autobiography, Saved from Salvation, and the even better selling Book of Very Common Prayer The Prayer to Delay Orgasm, The Prayer to Prevent Hair Loss, The Prayer to Silence Car Alarms. He is all alone in the plane, which will shortly reach terminal velocity and crash into the vast Australian outback. Tender Branson last surviving member of the so called ‘Creedish Death Cult’ is dictating his incredible life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. But in Tyler’s world there are no rules, no limits, no brakes.įrom the author of the underground sensation Fight Club, a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post cult life. Waiters, clerks, and middlemen seek out the visceral satisfaction of secret after hours boxing matches in the baseme*nts of bars, thinking they have found a way to live beyond their confining and stultifying lives.
Relief for him and his peers comes in the form of Tyler Durden, the intensely charismatic inventor of Fight Club.
Chuck Palahniuk’s darkly funny first novel tells the story of a disenfranchised young man frustrated with his bureacratic job and superficial relationships and disillusioned with the consumer culture’s prepackaged pleasures. In a new Introduction, he discusses the various interpretations in the popular media of Fight Club and the movie it inspired, as well as his personal reactions to the work’s reception and the influence that the Fight Club phenomenon has already had on our culture. Now the author adds his own voice to the critical debate he generated.
With more than 300,000 copies sold, Chuck Palahniuk’s brilliant first novel and cult classic is being reissued with a new Introduction by the author An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, Fight Club is widely recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels of the last decade.
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