Choke (English, Paperback, Palahniuk Chuck)

Choke is a novel written by the American author of Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk.

Summary of the Book

Choke gives readers a vision of life, love, sex, and mortality that is both alarmingly brilliant and teeth-rattlingly funny. Victor Mancini, a medical school dropout, has planned an intricate con to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking and the person who saves him will feel responsible for the rest of their life! Multiplying that a few hundred times, he generates a healthy flow of cheques, week in and week out. Between fake choking gigs, Victor works with a diverse group of losers and stoners, journeys through sex addiction groups for action, and visits his mother, whose radical streak made his childhood a mad whirl and whose Alzheimer's disease now hides what may be the staggering truth about his, possibly divine, parentage! A rogue for our upsetting times, Victor's very existence is a fight to seize an identity from devastating forces.

About Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael Palahniuk or Chuck Palahniuk is a renowned American freelance journalist and novelist. He is well-known for his transgression from traditional ways of writing and for the use of satire. His writings usually deal with people belonging to the side-lined sections of society who then react to their condition in an aggressive manner. His writing is greatly influenced by writers like Albert Camus and Michel Foucault. Some of his other fictional works include Survivor, Fight Club, Haunted, Damned, and Doomed.