An insomniac drifts through the meaninglessness of modern life – until he finds purpose in violence.Prisoner to the 9 to 5 and desperate to feel something real, he finds relief in support groups meant for other people’s suffering.Then he meets Tyler Durden.They begin with a fight in a car park. Others watch. Others return. Soon the gatherings acquire rules, rituals, and a strange discipline. What feels at first like release takes on a sharper edge, binding its members through bruises and secrecy.As Tyler’s influence grows, the narrator’s sense of self begins to loosen. When the truth surfaces, it does not restore order. It reveals how far things have already moved beyond his control.'Hypnotic, pitiless and told brilliantly' Bret Easton Ellis'Like a noxious Doug Coupland, Palahniuk charts new-felt and totally contemporary categories of despair' Ali Smith, Guardian

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-11-30
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781448114955
Förlag:Vintage Publishing

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Chuck Palahniuk is the bestselling author of fifteen fictional works, including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Rant, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned, Doomed, Beautiful You, and most recently Make Something Up. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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"Like a noxious Doug Coupland, Palahiuk charts new-felt and totally contemporary categories of despair." -- Ali Smith Guardian "A terrifying roller coaster read which rapidly goes out of control. Palahniuk's debut novel reads like Franz Kafka updated to modern-day New York via Paul Auster. What begins as a vicious evening of barehanded fighting suddenly becomes a terrifying, apocalyptic movement...Wonderfully unpleasant." Big Issue "Short, sharp and savage, this haunting and strikingly original American urban nightmare is the most impressive US fiction debut I can remember in years." Glasgow Herald "An immensely skillful writer." Daily Telegraph