Choke: A Novel

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jul 30, 2002 - Fiction - 304 pages
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him. When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.
 

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Section 1
1
Section 2
9
Section 3
21
Section 4
25
Section 5
40
Section 6
54
Section 7
64
Section 8
68
Section 23
169
Section 24
179
Section 25
188
Section 26
196
Section 27
201
Section 28
206
Section 29
209
Section 30
218

Section 9
71
Section 10
75
Section 11
81
Section 12
92
Section 13
99
Section 14
108
Section 15
113
Section 16
120
Section 17
128
Section 18
138
Section 19
147
Section 20
152
Section 21
157
Section 22
162
Section 31
222
Section 32
231
Section 33
236
Section 34
241
Section 35
245
Section 36
259
Section 37
261
Section 38
266
Section 39
271
Section 40
276
Section 41
278
Section 42
283
Section 43
288
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About the author (2002)

CHUCK PALAHNIUK is the author of fourteen novels—Beautiful You, Doomed, Damned, Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Diary, Lullaby, Choke, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, and Fight Club—which have sold more than five million copies altogether in the United States. He is also the author of Fugitives and Refugees, published as part of the Crown Journey Series, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. Visit him on the web at chuckpalahniuk.net.

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