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050 00 $aPS3566.A4554$bC47 2001
082 00 $a813/.54$221
100 1 $aPalahniuk, Chuck.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95106929
245 10 $aChoke :$ba novel /$cChuck Palahniuk.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $a293 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"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.
520 8 $aBetween 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.
520 8 $aAn antihero for our deranging times, Victor finds that his whole existence is a struggle to wrest an identity from overwhelming forces."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAlzheimer's disease$xPatients$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009113748
650 0 $aSex addiction$vFiction.
655 7 $aPsychological fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026492
852 00 $bglx$hPS3566.A4554$iC47 2001