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Book Synopsis"Brilliantly satiric and savagely funny,
Survivor is a wild amphetamine ride through the vagaries of fame and the nature of belief." —
San Francisco ChronicleTrade Review"A turbo-charged, deliciously manic satire of contemporary American life. [Palahniuk] rearranges Vonnegut’s sly humor, DeLillo’s mordant social analysis and Pynchon’s antic surrealism (or is it R. Crumb’s) into a gleaming puzzle palace all his own." -- Newsday
"Convoluted, maniacally comic, partaking deeply of the America that streams towards us in the dead of night from the cable channels—that place of outrageous expectation, slavish idolatry, fanatic consumerism, and mind-stopping banality." -- Esquire
"Mordant…One’s sympathy for the improbably, doomed hero is fully engaged" -- The New Yorker
"A dead-on send-up of the media, celebrity and pop culture." -- Seattle Post Intelligencer
"The perfect comment on our apocalypse-fixated times." -- Spin
"Maybe our generation has found its Don DeLillo." -- Bret Easton Ellis
"Impressive…Palahniuk’s DeLilloesque cultural witticisms and his satirical take on the culture of instant celebrity invest the narrative with a dark humor." -- Publishers Weekly
"A morbidly fascinating black fantasy…Brilliant, engrossing, substantial, and fun: Palahniuk carves out credible, moving dramas." -- Kirkus Reviews
