Survivor (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

A$120 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

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PALAHNIUK, Chuck. Survivor. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015. Octavo. Full black leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 289 pp., paginated in reverse order. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special limitation page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: W. W. Norton Company, 1999. Chuck Palahniuk (b. 1962) grew up in Burbank, Washington, worked for years as a truck mechanic and a journalist, and published Fight Club in 1996 after it had been rejected by several publishers on the grounds that no one would buy a novel so relentlessly dark. Its subsequent cult success — accelerated by David Fincher's 1999 film adaptation — made Palahniuk one of the most widely read American novelists of his generation, and established the mode in which he has worked ever since: first-person confessional narration, deadpan black comedy, formal experimentation, and a consistent fascination with the mechanisms by which contemporary consumer culture destroys the selves it claims to liberate. Survivor , published the same year as the Fight Club film, was his second novel. Tender Branson is, as the novel opens, the last known surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult, a religious sect whose adult members have obeyed a divine instruction to kill themselves, leaving only Te

• Binding: Hardcover

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