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Choke *SIGNED* by Chuck Palahniuk (First Edition, 1st Printing HC DJ) Fight Club
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Signed By
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Signed
- Yes
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Signed, First Edition
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN
- 9780385501569
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Choke
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 18.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
About this product
Product Information
From the author of the international sensationFight Club,a powerful (and hilarious) novel about love and strife between mothers and sons, the addictive power of sex, the terrors of aging, the ugly truth about historical theme parks, and much else... Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk's controversial and blazingly original debut novel, introduced a fresh and even renegade talent to American fiction, one who has retooled the classic black humor of Terry Southern and Kurt Vonnegut for the lunacy of the millennial age. In his new novel,Choke,he gives readers a vision of life and love and sex and mortality that is both chillingly brilliant and teeth-rattlingly funny. 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's whole existence is a struggle to wrest an identity from overwhelming forces. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0385501560
ISBN-13
9780385501569
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1802400
Product Key Features
Book Title
Choke
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Literary
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3566.A4554c47 2001
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
Copyright Date
2001
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
00-063905
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
21
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