From a blazingly original new talent to the literary scene comes a brilliantly apocalyptic and unnerving novel. Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter, and dark, anarchist genius, is the inventor of the Fight Club--a group that encourages young men with good jobs and absent fathers to take off their shoes and shirts . . . and fight.

THE FIRST RULE about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.

Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with whitecollar jobs and failed lives 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 violent revenge on an empty consumer-culture world.