Survivor is
Chuck Palahniuk's second novel (
The author of Fight Club).
The story is told through Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish (A sect of devout Christians that resemble the Amish in their manner of dress but whom have markedly different opinons with respect to technology, suicide and home economics). He is abord Flight 2039 and is recounting the recent (and not so recent) events of his life as he waits for the plan to crash somewhere in the Australian Outback. He describes his transformation from obediant Creedish child to humble domestic servant and part-time homebrew sucide hotline operator to "ultra-buffed, steriod- and collagen-packed media messiah".
Not a bad book (if you like Chuck Palahniuk) that has the unique distinction of being the only novel I have ever read where the page and chapter numbers actually count backwards instead of forwards.