Synopses & Reviews
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.
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A dead-on sendup of the media, celebrity and pop culture. --Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Maniacally comic.A turbo-charged, deliciously manic satire of contemporary American life.Maybe our generation has found its Don DeLillo. -- Bret Easton Ellis
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Maniacally comic. --Esquire
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A turbo-charged, deliciously manic satire of contemporary American life. --Newsday
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Maybe our generation has found its Don DeLillo. --Bret Easton Ellis
Synopsis
Tender Branson--last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult--is dictating his life story into Flight 2039's recorder. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. But before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah. Unpredictable and unforgettable, is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak: a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world.
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From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club, a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post-cult life.
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"A wild amphetamine ride through the vagaries of fame and the nature of belief."--
About the Author
Chuck Palahniuk, the author of many novels including Fight Club, which was made into a movie directed by David Fincher, as well as Invisible Monsters, Diary, Lullaby, Choke, Pygmy, and Survivor. He lives in Washington State.