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"Fight Club" established Palahniuk as a brilliant satirist of deranged times. Victor Mancini, the protagonist of his new novel "Choke," needs to pay for elder care for his mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's. An antihero for millennial America, Victor finds that his whole existence is a strugg...

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Main Author: Palahniuk, Chuck
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, 2001.
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Alzheimer's disease > Patients > Fiction.
Sex addiction > Fiction.
Tennis players > Florida > Key West > Fiction.
Key West (Fla.) > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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Summary:"Fight Club" established Palahniuk as a brilliant satirist of deranged times. Victor Mancini, the protagonist of his new novel "Choke," needs to pay for elder care for his mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's. An antihero for millennial America, Victor finds that his whole existence is a struggle to wrest an identity from overwhelming forces.
Physical Description:293 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780385720922
0385720920
9780385501569
0385501560
0060176679
Author Notes:Chuck Palahniuk was born in Pasco, Washington on February 21, 1962. He received a BA in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1986. Before becoming a full-time author, he worked as a journalist and as a diesel mechanic. He has written numerous novels including Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Rant, Snuff, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned, Doomed, Beautiful You, and Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread. Fight Club was made into a film by director David Fincher and Choke was made into a film by director Clark Gregg. He is also the author of Fugitives and Refugees, a nonfiction profile of Portland, Oregon, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction.

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