Fight Club

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This is one of the few books in this list that if you’ve seen and loved the film you are in for a very different and wild experience.  There is no way that the film could portray this masterpiece fully.  Believe me, if you loved the film you are going to love this more.

Reviewed by Sarah Broadhurst
Sarah Broadhurst spent her early working life in the book trade in both retail and wholesale until the arrival of children forced her to look for freelance work she could do from…
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About Fight Club

An insomniac drifts through the meaninglessness of modern life - until he finds purpose in violence.Prisoner to the 9 to 5 and desperate to feel something real, he finds relief in support groups meant for other people's suffering.Then he meets Tyler Durden.They begin with a fight in a car park. Others watch. Others return. Soon the gatherings acquire rules, rituals, and a strange discipline. What feels at first like release takes on a sharper edge, binding its members through bruises and secrecy.As Tyler's influence grows, the narrator's sense of self begins to loosen. When the truth surfaces, it does not restore order. It reveals how far things have already moved beyond his control.'Hypnotic, pitiless and told brilliantly' Bret Easton Ellis'Like a noxious Doug Coupland, Palahniuk charts new-felt and totally contemporary categories of despair' Ali Smith, GuardianVINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.

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