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Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shir and fight each other barehanded for 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.

From the author of the cult sensation Fight Club (now a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter) comes Survivor. "A turbo-charged, deliciously manic satire of contemporary American life." --"Newsday "The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," according to the "been there, done that" wisdom of Tender Branson, last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult. At the opening of Chuck Palahniuk's hilariously unnerving second novel, Tender is cruising on autopilot, 39,000 feet up, dictating the whole of his life story into Flight 2039's "black box" in the final moments before crashing into the vast Australian outback. Not since Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night has there been as dark and telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world. Wickedly incisive and mesmerizing, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak.

Жизнь — увлекательнее самого изощренного вымысла… Жизнь — страшнее самого потрясающего романа «ужасов»… Добро пожаловать в РЕАЛЬНЫЙ МИР! В мир легендарной «культуры поколения «Х». В мир, где обитают «интеллектуалы кайф-культуры» — актеры, писатели, рок-музыканты… В мир уютного ада хосписов, блеска и нищеты бодибилдеров и маленьких трагедий «больших парней» — рестлеров. В мир, многогранность которого превосходит самые смелые ожидания!

Medical school dropout and former sex addict Victor Mancini comes up a scam to pay for his mother's Ahzheimer care by pretending to be choking in a restaurant and coning the individuals who "save" him into giving him money

Takes the form of a 'coma diary' kept by one Misty Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in hospital after a suicide attempt. Once, she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at art school and being brought back to Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid.

Портленд, штат Орегон. Здесь, на излете "проклятых восьмидесятых" родилась дикая, неистовая грандж-культуры, подарившая миру великий рок-н-рол, гениальное кино и талантливую литературу. Для широкого круга читателей