Fight Club

Author(s): Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Josh

The book that was made into the highly succesful movie Fight Club starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton

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 shirts 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.

Staff Notes: When Tyler Durden invents 'fight club', a bare-knuckled support group for disaffected middle-class men, people think he's a visionary. But things get out of hand, and Tyler's schemes become more nefarious than anyone imagined. An endlessly quotable critique of masculinity and capitalist society, Fight Club is my favourite novel of all time. If you've read it, come and chat to me; I'll take any excuse to break the first two rules of fight club... - Josh


Product Information

Chuck Palahniuk's twelve previous novels are the bestselling Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Lullaby, Diary, Choke - which has been made into a film by director Clark Gregg, starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston - Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher. He is also the author of the nonfiction profile of Portland, Oregon, Fugitives and Refugees, Damned and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

General Fields

  • : 9780091835132
  • : Random House Australia
  • : ADULT LOCAL VINTAGE - MASS MKT
  • : 0.152
  • : January 1997
  • : 199mm X 130mm X 14mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Chuck Palahniuk
  • : Paperback
  • : 741.5/973
  • : 210
  • : FA