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Cult survivor narrates life to plane's black box.

If you're intrigued by dark humor blended with social satire, "Survivor" is a gripping read. With Chuck Palahniuk's signature style of delving into the bizarre and the unnerving, this twisted tale promises a unique journey through celebrity culture and the quest for meaning in modern life. It's an unflinchingly critical, yet somewhat entertaining, look at our fascination with disaster and the price of fame.

  • Oregon Book Award Nominee for Fiction (Finalist) (1999)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780099282648
Authors: Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2000-08-03
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Mystery/Crime/Thriller, Horror
Related Topics: Mystery, Thriller
Goodreads rating: 3.93
(rated by 117817 readers)

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From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post-cult life.Tender Branson—last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. Before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child and humble domestic servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah, author of a best-selling autobiography, Saved from Salvation, and the even better selling Book of Very Common Prayer (The Prayer to Delay Orgasm, The Prayer to Prevent Hair Loss, The Prayer to Silence Car Alarms). He'll reveal the truth of his tortured romance with the elusive and prescient Fertility Hollis, share his insight that "the only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," and deny responsibility for the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill, a 20,000-acre repository for the nation's outdated pornography. Among other matters both bizarre and trenchant.Not since Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night and Jerzy Kosinski's Being There has there been as dark and telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world. Unpredictable, compelling, and unforgettable, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak; and it cements his place as one of the most original writers in fiction today.
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Cult survivor narrates life to plane's black box.

If you're intrigued by dark humor blended with social satire, "Survivor" is a gripping read. With Chuck Palahniuk's signature style of delving into the bizarre and the unnerving, this twisted tale promises a unique journey through celebrity culture and the quest for meaning in modern life. It's an unflinchingly critical, yet somewhat entertaining, look at our fascination with disaster and the price of fame.

  • Oregon Book Award Nominee for Fiction (Finalist) (1999)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.