"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 good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take
off their shoes and shirts and fight each other
barehanded just as long as they have to.
The second rule about fight club is you
don't talk about fight club.
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 revenge on a world where
cancer support groups have the corner on human
warmth.
The third rule about fight club is two
men per fight.
As the narrator of Fight Club puts it:
»If people thought you were dying, they gave you
their full attention.«
Where does Tyler Durden come from? Why do his
violent schemes so capture the troubled, insomniac
narrator? What events bring them to the roof of the
world's tallest building, wired to explode in ten
minutes? The answers in Fight Club reveal a world
poised on the brink of mayhem-and introduce a
blazingly original new talent to the literary scene."
