Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
In his new novel, Choke, Palahniuk gives readers a vision of life and love and sex and mortality that is both chillingly brilliant and teeth-rattlingly funny
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk's controversial and blazingly original debut novel, introduced a fresh and even renegade talent to American fiction, one who has retooled the classic black humour of Terry Southern and Vonnegut for the lunacy of the millennial age.
Victor Mancini, a dropout from medical school, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care- pretend to be choking and the person who 'saves' you will feel responsible for the rest of their life. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of cheques, week in, week out.
Between fake choking gigs, Victor works at Colonial Dunsboro with a motley group of losers and stoners trapped in 1734, cruises sex addiction groups for action and visits his mother, whose anarchic streak made his childhood a mad whirl and whose Alzheimer's disease now hides what may be the startling truth about his, possibly divine, parentage.
Format: Paperback | 304 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.9 x 12.8 x 1.8 | 238g
Publication Date: 01 Jul 2003
Publisher: Random House UK
Imprint: Vintage Books
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN10: 0099422689
ISBN13: 9780099422686
Condition: Very Good
A vintage book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. Very minimal damage to the cover, including a minor scuff mark on the bottom-right corner of the front cover. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. Very minimal wear and tear.