Choke

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.

• (Author)  Chuck Palahniuk
• (Illustrated)  No
• (Illustrator)  N/A
• (Suggested age range)  N/A
• (Series)  N/A
• (ISBN)  9780099422686
• (Publisher)  Vintage
• (Printing date)  2003
• (Format)  Paperback
• (Dust jacket)  N/A
• (Weight)  220g
• (Size)  20 x 13 x 1.7 cm
• (No. of pages)  292
• (RRP)  £8.99