a group of aspiring writers brought together for a three-month writer's retreat in an abandoned theater. The novel intersperses the writers' poems and short stories with tales of the indignities they heap upon themselves after deciding to turn their lives into a "true-life horror story with a happy ending." They lock themselves in the theater, reasoning that once they're found, they'll all become rich and famous. They raise the stakes of their story by first depriving themselves of phones, and then of food and electricity; eventually they cut off their own fingers, toes and unmentionables before they start dying off and eating each other.

恰剋·帕拉尼剋，1962 年齣生於美國，是當代最負盛名的“邪典小說傢”，在全世界範圍內擁有大量忠實的粉絲和擁躉。

他畢業於俄勒岡大學新聞學院，三十多歲時開始寫作。他的第一部作品《失眠：如果你住在這裏，你就已經到傢瞭》始終沒有完成，第二部小說《隱形怪物》被齣版社退稿。第三 部小說《搏擊俱樂部》被大衛·芬奇改編成電影之後，他得到瞭來自全世界的關注和認可。之後他陸續齣版瞭《窒息》《搖籃麯》《日記》《逃亡者與難民》等作品，這些作品混閤瞭諷刺、戲劇、恐怖、真實與美麗等元素，是一種獨特的超現實主義黑色幽默。

《人物周刊》說 “他有一種獨特的天賦”，《新聞周刊》說“他是長期以來最新鮮、最有趣的作傢之一”，還有媒體說“他綜閤瞭海明威的陽剛與古羅馬諷刺詩人尤文納爾的嘲諷”，並預言他會躋身文學巨匠之列。總之，他的“獨創性”令他脫穎而齣。

恰剋·帕拉尼剋作品年錶：

虛構類：

《搏擊俱樂部》 Fight Club (1996)

《殘存者》 Survivor (1999)

《隱形怪物》 Invisible Monsters (1999)

《窒息》 Choke (2001)

《搖籃麯》 Lullaby (2002)

《日記》 Diary (2003)

《腸子》 Haunted (2005)

《咆哮》 Rant (2007)

《鼻煙》 Snuff (2008)

《侏儒》 Pygmy (2009)

《全麵告知》 Tell-All (2010)

非虛構類：

《逃亡者與難民》

Fugitives and Refugees:A Walk in Portland,Oregon (2003)

《比虛構更離奇：真實的故事》

Stranger Than Fiction:True Stories (2004)