Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who 'saves you' will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of cheques, week in, week out.
Victor also works at a theme park with a motley group of losers, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his mother, whose Alzheimer's disease now hides what may be the startling truth about his parentage.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099422686
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 215 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 18 mm
Palahniuk's grotesque, exaggerated portrait of American society certainly isn't pretty, but it grips like a vice all the same - The Times
A wonderful writer with a raw take on modern woes - The Face
Mining a dark vein opened by Bret Easton Ellis and George Saunders, Palahniuk specialises in producing nightmarish visions of American society that manage to be both repugnant and hilarious - the reckless brilliance of his imagination keeps you turning the pages - Literary Review
A raw and vital book, punctuated with outrageous, off-the-wall moments - New York Times
The pungent imagery, the witty twists, the chunky rhythms are great - Financial Times
Really great book that has been made into a film that is released Summer 08
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