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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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Survivor canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
American novel
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novel ⓘ satirical novel ⓘ |
| author | Chuck Palahniuk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
celebrity culture
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consumerism ⓘ fatalism ⓘ identity ⓘ media exploitation ⓘ religious cults ⓘ |
| character |
Adam Branson
NERFINISHED
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Fertility Hollis NERFINISHED ⓘ The Creedish Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coverArtist | Rodrigo Corral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Choke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
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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 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist | Tender Branson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1999 ⓘ |
| publisher | W. W. Norton & Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
commercial airplane ⓘ |
| structure | told in reverse chapter order ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
commercialization of religion
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mass suicide of a religious cult ⓘ self-help culture ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 20th century ⓘ |
| tone | darkly satirical ⓘ |
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