Fight Club

Fight Club
Cover of the 2004 English Edition
Author(s)	Chuck Palahniuk
Cover artist	Michael Ian Kaye, Photo: Melissa Hayden
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fiction
Publisher	W.W. Norton
Publication year	1996
Pages	208
ISBN	0-393-03976-5

Cover Text

THE FIRST RULE ABOUT FIGHT CLUB IS YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB.

Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with whitecollar jobs and failed lives take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just 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 violent revenge on a world where cancer support groups have the corner on human warmth. As the narrator of Fight Club puts it: "If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention."

THE SECOND RULE ABOUT FIGHT CLUB IS YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB.

Where does Tyler Durden come from? Why do his violent schemes so capture the troubled, insomniac narrator? What events bring them to the roof of the world's tallest building, wired to explode in ten minutes? The answers in Fight Club reveal a world poised on the brink of mayhem - and introduce a blazingly original new talent to the literary scene.

THE THIRD RULE ABOUT FIGHT CLUB IS TWO MEN PER FIGHT.

What will the end of the millennium feel like? Readers of Chuck Palahniuk's brilliantly apocalyptic and unnerving first novel are going to find out.

About the Author

Chuck Palahniuk is a graduate of the University of Oregon. He lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Sections of Fight Club have appeared in Story and The Pursuit of Happiness.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 11
• Chapter 2 16
• Chapter 3 25
• Chapter 4 34
• Chapter 5 40
• Chapter 6 47
• Chapter 7 56
• Chapter 8 63
• Chapter 9 74
• Chapter 10 79
• Chapter 11 86
• Chapter 12 95
• Chapter 13 102
• Chapter 14 107
• Chapter 15 112
• Chapter 16 118
• Chapter 17 126
• Chapter 18 137
• Chapter 19 148
• Chapter 20 151
• Chapter 21 156
• Chapter 22 162
• Chapter 23 169
• Chapter 24 176
• Chapter 25 181
• Chapter 26 184
• Chapter 27 192
• Chapter 28 198
• Chapter 29 202

Books By Same Author

• Survivor
• Invisible Monsters
• Choke
• Lullaby
• Fugitives & Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
• Diary
• Stranger Than FIction: True Stories
• Haunted
• Rant
• Snuff
• Pygmy
• Tell-All
• Damned
• Invisible Monsters Remix
• Phoenix (a Kindle Single)
• Doomed
• Burnt Tongues: Stories
• Beautiful You
• Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
• Fight Club 2
• Bait: Off Color Stories for You to Color
• Legacy: An Off-Color Novella for You to Color
• Adjustment Day

Publication Data

Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk, 1996, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-03976-5

External Links

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• Fight Club at Barnes&Noble