Fight Club

“The first rule of fight club is you don’t talk about fight club.”

Every weekend in the basements and carparks of bars across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers 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 revenge on a world where healthy young people go to meetings of cancer support groups because only there can they find human warmth and compassion: ‘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? The answers in Fight Club reveal a world poised on the brink of mayhem – and introduce a blazingly original new literary talent.