Survivor - Softcover

Chuck Palahniuk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224060104 ISBN 13: 9780224060103

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Tender Branson is the last surviving member of the "Creedish Death Cult" and is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. Before it crashes he will unfold the tale of his journey from Creedish child to media messiah.

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Review:

Tender Branson is the last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult and finds himself suddenly famous, at the epicentre of a vast freak-show. In response, he commandeers a 747 jet, empties it of passengers and flies it on a collision course for the Australian outback. However, before the kamakazi landing, he decides to dictate his entire story to the flight's black-box recorder. Palahniuk offers a heady mix of startling satire and deadpan humour, with Branson moving from a mindless, obedient servant to a high-gloss media mogul. Survivor seeks to record one man's mental undoing and the result is an unnerving yet hilarious observation on cult life and media obsession with the outlandish. Whether Branson's apocalypse is fulfilling his belief's obligations or the media circus is, the harshest truth of all is "... the only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage." --Danny Graydon

Review:

"Mordant...one's sympathy for the improbable, doomed hero is fully engaged." --"The New Yorker"
"A wild amphetamine ride through the vagaries of fame and the nature of belief."--"The San Francisco Chronicle"
"Convoluted, maniacally comic, partaking deeply of the America that streams towrd us in the dead of night from the cable channels--that place of outrageous expectation, slavish idolatry, fanatic consumerism, and mind-stopping banality." --Sven Birkerts, "Esquire"

" Mordant...one's sympathy for the improbable, doomed hero is fully engaged." --"The New Yorker"
" A wild amphetamine ride through the vagaries of fame and the nature of belief." --"The San Francisco Chronicle"
" Convoluted, maniacally comic, partaking deeply of the America that streams towrd us in the dead of night from the cable channels--that place of outrageous expectation, slavish idolatry, fanatic consumerism, and mind-stopping banality." --Sven Birkerts, "Esquire"

Maniacally comic.

Maybe our generation has found its Don DeLillo.--Bret Easton Ellis

Maniacally comic. "

Maybe our generation has found its Don DeLillo. --Bret Easton Ellis"

A turbo-charged, deliciously manic satire of contemporary American life.

A dead-on sendup of the media, celebrity and pop culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0224060104
• ISBN 13: 9780224060103
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304