On Saturday nights, in basements and parking garages across the country, young men take off their shirts and shoes and begin fighting one another until they collapse from exhaustion. They return to work with bruised faces, broken teeth, and the feeling that they can now handle anything—even their own insomnia.
They are all members of Fight Club, an “organization” created by Tyler Durden, a projectionist and waiter, a rebellious and enigmatic figure.
And this is only the beginning of his plans for revenge against a world in which support groups for cancer patients and other sufferers have become the only refuge for a little human warmth.
With this novel, Chuck Palahniuk made his debut and established himself as a major literary voice, using dark humor to critique late twentieth-century society.
Fight Club was successfully adapted for the screen by David Fincher, starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter.
