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"Victor Mancini, a dropout from medical school, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's elder care: Pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who "saves you", will feel responsible for the rest of his life. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of checks, week in, week out.
Between fake choking gigs, Victor works at Colonial Dunsboro with a motley group of losers and stoners trapped in 1734, cruises sex addiction groups for action ("You put twenty sexaholics around a table night after night and don't be surprised"), and visits his mother, whose anarchic streak made his childhood a mad whirl and whose Alzheimer's disease now hides what may be the startling truth about his (possibly divine?) parentage.
An antihero for our deranging times, Victor finds that his whole existence is a struggle to wrest an identity from overwhelming forces."--BOOK JACKET.
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Literature, Sex addiction, Fiction, Patients, Sex addicts, Alzheimer's disease, Psychological fiction, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Alzheimer Disease, FICTION / Psychological, Sexual Behavior, FICTION / Literary, Fiction, psychological, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2008-10-19, New York Times bestseller, Mothers and sonsShowing 7 featured editions. View all 22 editions?
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Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be "saved" by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, go on to send checks to support him. When he's not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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