Book description
Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult,
has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell
his story to the plane's black box before it crashes. Brought up by the
repressive cult and, like all Creedish younger sons, hired out as a
domestic servant, Tender finds himself suddenly famous when his fellow
cult members all commit suicide. As media messiah he ascends to the very
top of the freak-show heap before finally and apocalyptically spiralling
out of control.
Chuck Palahniuk's eleven previous novels are the bestselling
Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted,
Lullaby, Diary, Choke - which has been made
into a film by director Clark Gregg, starring Sam
Rockwell and Anjelica Huston - Survivor, Invisible
Monsters, and Fight Club, which was made into
a film by director David Fincher. He is also the author of the
nonfiction profile of Portland, Oregon, Fugitives and Refugees,
and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives
in the
Pacific Northwest.
