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Choke : a novel
Palahniuk, Chuck · New York : Doubleday, 2001
- Publisher
- New York : Doubleday, 2001
- Physical description
- 293 pages
- ISBN
- 0307388921 (pbk.);0385501560;0385720920;9780307388926;9780385720922
- Dewey classification
- 813.54
- Language
- English
Summary
"Victor Mancini, a dropout from medical school, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's elder care: Pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who "saves you", will feel responsible for the rest of his life. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of checks, 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 ("You put twenty sexaholics around a table night after night and don't be surprised"), 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. An antihero for our deranging times, Victor finds that his whole existence is a struggle to wrest an identity from overwhelming forces."--BOOK JACKET
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 001Control number | 18697 |
| 005Date and time of latest transaction | 8 Sep 2009, 08:12 |
| 008Fixed-length data elements | 090113r20022001nyu 000 1 eng d |
| 010Library of Congress control number | 0006003905 |
| 020International Standard Book Number (ISBN) |
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| 035System control number | (AuCNLKIN)000043733884 |
| 041Language code | eng |
| 050Library of Congress call number | PS3566.A4554 C47 2002 |
| 082Dewey Decimal call number | 813.54 |
| 100Main entry – personal name | Palahniuk, Chuck. |
| 245Title statement | Choke : a novel / Chuck Palahniuk. |
| 250Edition statement | 1st Anchor Books ed. |
| 260Publication, distribution, etc. (imprint) | New York : Doubleday, 2001 |
| 300Physical description | 293 p. ; 21 cm. |
| 500General note |
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| 520Summary, etc. | "Victor Mancini, a dropout from medical school, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's elder care: Pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who "saves you", will feel responsible for the rest of his life. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of checks, 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 ("You put twenty sexaholics around a table night after night and don't be surprised"), 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. An antihero for our deranging times, Victor finds that his whole existence is a struggle to wrest an identity from overwhelming forces."--BOOK JACKET. |
| 650Subject added entry – topical term |
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| 655Index term – genre/form | Psychological fiction. lcsh |
| 999Collection | Downloads |
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