Choke
  • Published: 1 July 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099422686
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99
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Choke

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1 Jul 2003
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30 Jun 2011
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'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 group of losers, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his mother, whose Alzheimer's disease now hides what may be the startling truth about his parentage.
  • Published: 1 July 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099422686
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

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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Also by Chuck Palahniuk

Fight Club
Haunted
Fight Club 3 (Graphic Novel)
Adjustment Day
Fight Club 2 (Graphic Novel)
Legacy: An Off-Color Novella for You to Color
Fight Club 2 Library Edition
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Praise for Choke

The pungent imagery, the witty twists, the chunky rhythms are great

Financial Times

A wonderful writer with a raw take on modern woes

The Face

A raw and vital book, punctuated with outrageous, off-the-wall moments

New York Times

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

Palahniuk's grotesque, exaggerated portrait of American society certainly isn't pretty, but it grips like a vice all the same

The Times
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