Fight Club - Softcover

Palahniuk, Chuck

4.19

590,922 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099283336 ISBN 13: 9780099283331

Publisher: Vintage, 1999

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Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots 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 its only the beginning of his plans for revenge on a world where cancer support groups have the corner on human warmth. Where does Tyler Durden come from? Why do his violent schemes so capture the troubled insomniac narrator? The answers in FIGHT CLUB reveal a world poised on the brink of mayhem - and introduce a blazingly original literary talent.

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Review:

"An astonishing debut ... Fight Club is a dark, unsettling, and nerve-chafing satire."

Diabolically sharp and funny.

An astonishing debut.... Fight Club is a dark, unsettling, and nerve-chafing satire.

This brilliant bit of nihilism succeeds where so many self-described transgressive novels do not: It's dangerous because it's so compelling.

Irresistable.... 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

A noir fable with a potent 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

An astonishing debut.... ?Fight Club ?is a dark, unsettling, and nerve-chafing satire.

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

Amazing and artful disturbance. ?Fight Club ?is for everybody who thinks and loves the fine American language. --Barry Hannah

Diabolically sharp and funny.

Diabolically sharp and funny. "

An astonishing debut.... ?a dark, unsettling, and nerve-chafing satire. "

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"

Amazing and artful disturbance. ?Fight Club ?is for everybody who thinks and loves the fine American language. --Barry Hannah"

This brilliant bit of nihilism succeeds where so many self-described transgressive novels do not: It's dangerous because it's so compelling.

A noir fable with a potent punch.... A genuine, two-fisted talent.--Katherine Dunn

From the Publisher:

A great d�but...Hypnotic, pitiless and told brilliantly' Bret Easton Ellis

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