# Choke

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- Book: [Choke](https://www.bookquiver.com/chuck-palahniuk/choke) ([Choke.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/chuck-palahniuk/choke.md))
- Authors: [Chuck Palahniuk](https://www.bookquiver.com/chuck-palahniuk)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9942-268-6
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2002-08-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.