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Victor works as a guide at a colonial village, where he must stay in 18th-century costume. He moonlights as a con artist. His mother is in a nursing home, and in his spare time Victor visits her and listens to her stories about the good old days when she and his father--whom Victor never knew--were in and out of jail. Then she begins to imply that Victor was conceived by means of a miracle involving the sacred foreskin of Jesus. What's Victor to believe?
| Size | | Length: | 293 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.7 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Palahniuk is a cheerful nihilist with a mordant wit and a taste for scatological humor. Fair warning: some may find his language and imagery offensive."
Kirkus Reviews (03/15/2001)
"...CHOKE is an uneven but still raw and vital book, punctuated with outrageous, off-the-wall moments that work as often as not. If the author's adolescent urge to shock is...facile..., his wickedness is something to reckon with as well."
New York Times - Janet Maslin (05/24/2001)
"His subversive riffs conjure a kind of jump-cut cinema of the diseased imagination, resulting in an outlandish allegory that is as brutally hilarious as it is relentlessly bleak."
Book - Don McLeese
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