La edición definitiva de "El club de la lucha" presenta una novela provocadora donde jóvenes oficinistas participan en peleas clandestinas para liberarse del consumismo. Tyler Durden, un anárquico genio, busca vengarse de una sociedad enferma. Desde su publicación y adaptación cinematográfica, se ha convertido en un clásico underground.
From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more... Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka 'Climax-Well', a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed of heights of orgasmic pleasure for days on end. What's not to like? This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of sex toys to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called 'Beautiful You'. So potent and effective are these devices that women line up in their millions outside the stores on opening day then lock themselves in their room and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell's plan for erotically enabled world domination must be stopped. But how?
Medical school dropout and former sex addict Victor Mancini comes up a scam to pay for his mother's Ahzheimer care by pretending to be choking in a restaurant and coning the individuals who "save" him into giving him money
Жизнь — увлекательнее самого изощренного вымысла… Жизнь — страшнее самого потрясающего романа «ужасов»… Добро пожаловать в РЕАЛЬНЫЙ МИР! В мир легендарной «культуры поколения «Х». В мир, где обитают «интеллектуалы кайф-культуры» — актеры, писатели, рок-музыканты… В мир уютного ада хосписов, блеска и нищеты бодибилдеров и маленьких трагедий «больших парней» — рестлеров. В мир, многогранность которого превосходит самые смелые ожидания!
Takes the form of a 'coma diary' kept by one Misty Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in hospital after a suicide attempt. Once, she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at art school and being brought back to Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid.
Портленд, штат Орегон. Здесь, на излете "проклятых восьмидесятых" родилась дикая, неистовая грандж-культуры, подарившая миру великий рок-н-рол, гениальное кино и талантливую литературу. Для широкого круга читателей
From the author of the cult sensation Fight Club (now a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter) comes Survivor. "A turbo-charged, deliciously manic satire of contemporary American life." --"Newsday "The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," according to the "been there, done that" wisdom of Tender Branson, last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult. At the opening of Chuck Palahniuk's hilariously unnerving second novel, Tender is cruising on autopilot, 39,000 feet up, dictating the whole of his life story into Flight 2039's "black box" in the final moments before crashing into the vast Australian outback. Not since Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night has there been as dark and telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world. Wickedly incisive and mesmerizing, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak.
