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Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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The novel of youthful rebellion ain't what it used to be. When Holden Caulfield renounced prep school conformity in The Catcher in the Rye (1951), he was content to shout out "Sleep tight, ya morons!" before leaving the premises. Six years later, Sal Paradise stirred the pot in On the Road by hitchhiking and listening to jazz—tame stuff by today's stand…

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