Fight Club

Fight Club{{ref|lowercase}} (1996) is the first published novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The plot is based around an unnamed protagonist who struggles with his growing discomfort with consumerism and changes in the state of masculinity in American culture. In an attempt to overcome this, he creates an underground boxing club as a new form of therapy. The novel was made into a movie of the same name in 1999 by director David Fincher, which resulted in the story becoming a pop culture phenomenon. A reissued version of the novel was published in 2004 that begins with an introduction by the author which talks about the conception and popularity of both the novel and the movie.

ISBN numbers

• ISBN 0393039765 (hardcover, 1996)
• ISBN 0805054375 (paperback, 1997)
• ISBN 0805062971 (paperback, 1999)
• ISBN 0805076476 (paperback, 2004)
• ISBN 0805076557 (paperback, 2004)