![]() ![]() Set in contemporary America, the novel seizes hold of dark separatist ideas and drags them to their ultimate conclusion. ![]() with crosshairs fixed on the absurdity of both sides of the political divide. This is one of those books that is best enjoyed in a bad mood, when you're thinking that a good cull is really what the human race needs, although even when feeling quite sunny, I found the glee Palahniuk takes in his Book of Revelation-esque scenario rather infectious.' - Jake Kerridge, The Daily Telegraph his humour expresses a genuine anger, and that gives his book a crackling energy. ' The Fight Club author is on a mission to offend everyone with his new satire about America. 'There is more than a mere whiff of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Purge in Palahniuk's latest novel, and it could be read as a treatise on contemporary America.' - The Irish Times Think Will Self, George Orwell, Stephen King and William Burroughs mixed up in a Molotov cocktail.' - attitude ![]() 'An heir to Chuck Palahniuk's most famous novel, Fight Club, Adjustment Day is one of the most ingeniously fucked-up and enticingly original novels to be published this year. Theyve been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorising its directives. People pass the word only to those they trust most- Adjustment Day is coming. Welcome back, Chuck.' - Ian O'Doherty, The Irish Independent The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. skewers every tribe in the identity politics rainbow. Mashing up the current febrile mood in America and the destructive impulses of Fight Club, Adjustment Day. ![]()
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