Survivor
Subtitle: a novel
By: Chuck Palahniuk.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Autobiography -- Authorship -- Fiction; Suicide victims -- Fiction; Cults -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Tender Branson - last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult - is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback.

But before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child and humble domestic servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah, author of a best-selling autobiography, Saved from Salvation, and the even better selling Book of Very Common Prayer (The Prayer to Delay Orgasm, The Prayer to Prevent Hair Loss, The Prayer to Silence Car Alarms). He'll reveal the truth of his tortured romance with the elusive and prescient Fertility Hollis, share his insight that "the only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," and deny responsibility for the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill, a 20,000-acre repository for the nation's outdated pornography.

Among other matters both bizarre and trenchant.
Notes: Page numbering in reverse order.