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    CHOKE - A NOVEL

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    Victor Mancini is a ruthless con artist. Victor Mancini is a med-school dropout who's taken a job playing an Irish indentured servant in a colonial-era theme park in order to help care for his Alzheimer's-afflicted mother. Victor Mancini is a sex addict. Victor Mancini is a direct descendant of Jesus Christ. All of these statements about the protagonist of Choke are more or less true. Welcome, once again, to the world of Chuck Palahniuk.Art never comes from happiness.So says Mancini's mother only a few pages into the novel. Given her own dicey and melodramatic style of parenting, you would think that her son's life would be chock-full of nothing but art. Alas, that's not the case. In the fine tradition of Oedipus, Stephen Dedalus, and Anthony Soprano, Victor hasn't quite reconciled his issues with his mother. Instead, he's trawling sexual-addiction recovery meetings for dates and purposely choking in restaurants for a few moments of attention. Longing for a hug, in other words, he's settling for the Heimlich.Thematically, this is pretty familiar Palahniuk territory. It would be a pity to disclose the surprises of the plot, but suffice it to say that what we have here is a little bit of Tom Robbins's Another Roadside Attraction, a little bit of Don DeLillo's The Day Room, and, well, a little bit of Fight Club. Just as with Fight Club and the other two novels under Palahniuk's belt, we get a smattering of gloriously unflinching sound bites, including this skeptical biton prayer chains: A spiritual pyramid scheme. As if you can gang up on God. Bully him around.

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    ISBN9780385720922
    Pré vendaNão
    Peso339g
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    Livro disponível - pronta entregaNão
    Dimensões23 x 16 x 1
    IdiomaInglês
    Tipo itemLivro Importado
    Número de páginas304
    Número da ediçãoREPRINT EDITION - 2002
    Código Interno214295
    Código de barras9780385720922
    AcabamentoPAPERBACK
    AutorPALAHNIUK, CHUCK
    EditoraANCHOR BOOKS
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