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As the last living member of the "Creedish Death Cult," Ted Branson finds himself in a difficult situation as his plane is about to crash, and he turns inward and reflects on the long and difficult life that brought him to where he is today. By the author of Fight Club. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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Survivor, the second novel by Chuck Palahniuk--whose debut novel The Fight Club was widely received to critical acclaim--is a deranged comedy of nightmares, a groin-kick at Western society's worst excesses. This is satire at its best, and Palahniuk handles it all with a distinct, engaging prose style and with plot devices that keep the pages turning long after your tea break should have finished.

From the very opening of the book Palahniuk lets us know that his narrator, Tender Branson, the last surviving member of a religious death cult, is on a path to self-destruction. The tension in this book lies not in the outcome, because like Tender's soothsaying friend Fertility, we can see it coming 289 pages away, instead it lies in the intricate plot that takes Tender from farm boy to media celebrity and ruin.

This is a novel that examines what happens when religion meets the overindulgences of our consumerist society. In the world that the author envisages, which is all too real in the light of tragedies such as Waco and the Heaven's Gate suicides, the only acceptable religions are those that can be successfully marketed and controlled at a corporate level; the small separatist models of religion are superfluous, and self-destruct. This is also a look at religion itself, at how it can enslave as many people as it appears to liberate. A comic novel that deals with the most serious issues of society, Survivor places Palahniuk among the most daring and technically able writers of his generation.

Adam said the first step most cultures take to making you a slave is to castrate you ... the cultures that don't castrate you to make you a slave, they castrate your mind.
--Iain Robinson
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"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.

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  • PublisherAnchor Books
  • Publication date2000
  • ISBN 10 0385498721
  • ISBN 13 9780385498722
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  • Number of pages289
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