Book Bearings
Fight Club
- 222 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 1996
- 40 editions
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1 About this book
The narrator, who never gives his name, has a wearying corporate job and cannot sleep. He finds relief by attending support groups for the seriously ill, pretending to be one of them. Then he meets Tyler Durden, a mysterious and magnetic stranger, and the two start a secret club where men fight each other after hours in the basements of bars. The club spreads, and Tyler's plans for it grow larger and more dangerous. Chuck Palahniuk's first published novel appeared in 1996.
- Science fiction
- Millennialism
- Young men
- Gangs
- United States
- Media tie-in
2 What to expect
A short, abrasive satire: a sleepless office worker and a charismatic stranger found a secret club where men fight each other, and it grows into something far more destructive. It attacks consumer culture and broods on masculinity, anger and self-destruction, in clipped, repetitive, darkly comic prose that jumps around in time. It is violent and deliberately provocative, and it is best read without knowing the film.
Good for readers who want: dark satire, a transgressive cult novel, and a short, fast read.
3 About Chuck Palahniuk
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Chuck Palahniuk
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