EL218: Popular Literature

Chuck Palahniuk was born 1962. He grew up in Washington with his brother and four sisters. He began writing in the early 1990s after attending a workshop taught by writer Tom Spanbauer.
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From the publisher: Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basements of bars. There, two men fight "as long as they have to." This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world.