Survivor

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Survivor is a darkly satirical novel by Chuck Palahniuk that follows the last surviving member of a death cult as he recounts his life story while hijacking a doomed airplane.

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instanceOf American novel
novel
satirical novel
author Chuck Palahniuk
centralTheme celebrity culture
consumerism
fatalism
identity
media exploitation
religious cults
character Adam Branson
Fertility Hollis
The Creedish Church
countryOfOrigin United States
coverArtist Rodrigo Corral
followedBy Choke
genre dark comedy
satire
transgressive fiction
hasISBN 9780393039798
hasPageCount 289
hasTagline A novel by the author of Fight Club
hasTargetAudience adult readers
literaryMovement postmodern literature
mainCharacter Tender Branson
marketedAs fiction
mediaType print
narrativeFrame confession recorded on an airplane flight recorder
narrativePerspective first-person
notableFeature chapters are numbered in reverse, counting down to the plane crash
originalLanguage English
plotSummary The novel follows Tender Branson, the last surviving member of a death cult, as he recounts his life story while hijacking a doomed airplane.
precededBy Invisible Monsters
protagonist Tender Branson
publicationDate 1999
publisher W. W. Norton & Company
setting United States
commercial airplane
structure told in reverse chapter order
subjectMatter commercialization of religion
mass suicide of a religious cult
self-help culture
timePeriodOfSetting late 20th century
tone darkly satirical

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Chuck Palahniuk notableWork Survivor
The Story of Beauty basedOn Survivor
James McTeigue directed Survivor