Choke
$23.90
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2003
Summary
‘Choke is Fight Club for sex addicts’ - Independent on Sunday
BY THE AUTHOR OF FIGHT CLUB
Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother’s hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who ‘saves you’ will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of cheques, week in, week out.
Victor also works at a theme park with a motley …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099422686 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099422689 |
| Author: | Chuck Palahniuk |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2003 |
| Weight: | 217g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Palahniuk’s grotesque, exaggerated portrait of American society certainly isn’t pretty, but it grips like a vice all the same
Palahniuk’s grotesque, exaggerated portrait of American society certainly isn’t pretty, but it grips like a vice all the same * The Times *A wonderful writer with a raw take on modern woes * The Face *Mining a dark vein opened by Bret Easton Ellis and George Saunders, Palahniuk specialises in producing nightmarish visions of American society that manage to be both repugnant and hilarious - the reckless brilliance of his imagination keeps you turning the pages * Literary Review *A raw and vital book, punctuated with outrageous, off-the-wall moments * New York Times *The pungent imagery, the witty twists, the chunky rhythms are great * Financial Times *
About The Author
Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk is the bestselling author of fifteen fictional works, including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Rant, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned, Doomed, Beautiful You, and most recently Make Something Up. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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