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 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.Executive Producer: Dan Zitt
Producer: John McElroy
Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral
Jacket illustration by Bob Larkin
©2001 by Chuck Palahniuk
(P)2002 Random House, Inc. Dark Humour Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Psychological

Critic reviews

Praise for Chuck Palahniuk:

"Palahniuk is one of the freshest, most intriguing voices to appear in a long time. He rearranges Vonnegut's sly humor, DeLillo's mordant social analysis, and Pynchon's antic surrealism (or is it R. Crumb's?) into a gleaming puzzle palace all his own."
--Newsday

"Palahniuk displays a Swiftian gift for satire, as well as a knack for crafting mesmerizing sentences that loom with stark, prickly prose and repetitive rhythms."
--San Francisco Examiner

"Even I can't write this well."
--Thom Jones

"Palahniuk's language is urgent and tense, touched with psychopathic brilliance, his images dead-on accurate....[He] is an author who makes full use of the alchemical powers of fiction to synthesize a universe that mirrors our own fiction as a way of illuminating the world without obliterating its complexity."
--L.A. Weekly

"Maybe our generation has found its Don DeLillo."
--Bret Easton Ellis
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though flat toward the end this story was evocative and emotional.

Really enjoyed the narration from the author. No one does it better

Brilliant

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chuck is definetely an inspiration to myself and my writing career which I just started. I enjoyed reading and listening to this novel immensely.

Very talent individual. Very inspiring!

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This is a headscrewer of a story and it is one I'd gladly go through again. Chuck narrates this in a brilliant tone!! buy and never look back

if you liked fight club you'll love this

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Audiobook: Even though the monotone style of the narrator fits the book well, I ended up returning this title. Tried first to just listen while strolling but had to pick the book up quickly.

Book: I decided to take a chance with a genre I usually don’t read, and it took a while before I realized what was going on. It had some laugh out-moments and it got better as the story went on.

Monotonous

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amazing book,not for the faint of heart though,god damn love Chucks writing and performed perfectly aswell cant recommend it enough

loved it

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