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.
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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 30/06/2011
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ISBN: 9781446484029
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Length: 304 Pages
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RRP: £7.99
Reviews
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A wonderful writer with a raw take on modern woes
The Face
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A raw and vital book, punctuated with outrageous, off-the-wall moments
New York Times
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Mining a dark vein opened by Bret Easton Ellis and George Saunders, Palahniuk specialises in producing nightmarish visions of American society that manage to be both repugnant and hilarious-the reckless brilliance of his imagination keeps you turning the pages
Literary Review
