Survivor

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Synopsis
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. [Proofreader's Note: Most pages are purposefully out of order. Page numbers are correct, although the content is often mismatched. Hyphenated words at the bottoms of pages have been left as is to maintain the content.]
Copyright:
1999

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
291 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780385498722
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Chuck Palahniuk
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:
Liz Halperin
Proofread By:
Liz Halperin
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

Reviews

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Palahniuk is one of the "weirdest" authors I've run across. I enjoy proofreading his books because I don't know what I'm going to be doing. He plays not only with content, but with style. Survivor is just his second book, he's written many since. This time he plays with content as usual, but goes for stylistic experimentation. Not only is the timeline out of whack (not just reverse rewound but side-wound), but the actual pages are in the wrong order. At first I thought it was a problem in the conversion from scanning to proofreading, but it's the author. I compared to the print version, and also the running page numbers substantiate it. At first I had a bit of trouble accepting this, but after a few instances, my brain filled it in and made sense of it all. Quite an interesting phenomenon. As for content, the story is also weird. Is this guy on drugs or just bizarrely brained? He lives in the Pacific Northwest, where the continual rain is known to cause algae to grow in the brain and moss in the ears. Maybe he's a product of that. I just know if I see that he's going to do a reading in Portland, I'm going. This guy is too weird to ignore, and his writing has a definite cult following.