Fight Club

A novel that defied literary tradition and became a phenomenon

• "KULTREAD" fiction series
• Winner of Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and Oregon Book Award
• Cult film adaptation with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton

The fight will last as long as it takes

If you can constantly wake up in different places and at different times, why not one day wake up as a different person? This is the truth that the nameless hero of this story comes to on a certain day.

He will be helped by a rebel named Tyler Durden to achieve what he wants, to bring new meaning to a reality filled with insomnia. He brings the hero to a place called a fight club. And the first rule of the club is to never tell anyone about him.

Here gather those who are trapped in everyday life, who, fighting, want to feel like a man again. Those who choose: hell or nothing. Men who, beyond the limit of pain, beyond ethics, on the edge of madness, want to gain wild, primal freedom. But the first step to this freedom should be death, not battle.

Chuck Polanik is called a "shock writer". The descendant of a Ukrainian emigrant, he began his literary career at a fairly mature age, already having something to say to readers. His books have long gone beyond the actual work of art and have become a phenomenon of the counterculture. Polanik's style - sharp, categorical, provocative - is a manifesto of generation X. The writer's works have won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the Oregon Book Award, and have also been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award several times.