Survivor A Novel [Paperback]

A turbo-charged, deliciously manic satire of contemporary American life. [Palahniuk] rearranges Vonneguts sly humor, DeLillos mordant social analysis and Pynchons antic surrealism (or is it R. Crumbs) into a gleaming puzzle palace all his own.Convoluted, maniacally comic, partaking deeply of the America that streams towards us in the dead of night from the cable channelsthat place of outrageous expectation, slavish idolatry, fanatic consumerism, and mind-stopping banality.Mordant&Ones sympathy for the improbably, doomed hero is fully engagedA dead-on send-up of the media, celebrity and pop culture.The perfect comment on our apocalypse-fixated times.Maybe our generation has found its Don DeLillo.Impressive&Palahniuks DeLilloesque cultural witticisms and his satirical take on the culture of instant celebrity invest the narrative with a dark humor.A morbidly fascinating black fantasy&Brilliant, engrossing, substantial, and fun: Palahniuk carves out credible, moving dramas. Brilliantly satiric and savagely funny,