**The first rule about fight club is you don’t talk about fight club.** Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. *Fight Club* ’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basements of bars. There, two men fight as long as they have to. This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world.