Following on from the disturbed originality of Fight Club,
Palahniuk has created a superbly messed-up anarchic anti-hero to
confront the suffocating constraints of the 21st century. Turning
choking into a fine art, Victor ruthlessly exploits the idea that
if you save someone you take responsibility for them, as he
deliberately chokes himself in restaurants citywide. His saviours,
thankful for the kudos of saving a life, respond to his begging
letters with a steady stream of cash, while Victor gets love the
hard way. It's little wonder he's messed-up: Victor's deranged
mother gave him lessons on subversive art terrorism rather than
love during her frequent jailbreaks. Alzheimers has now stricken
her brilliantly malevolent mind and while the hospital bills hoover
up the choke scam money, the secret of his parentage lies locked
within her. A deliberately lost soul, Victor conducts his war on
society against himself. Working in a ludicrous colonial theme
park, staffed by drug-addled Mcjobbers, he cruises sex-addiction
groups for light entertainment, indulging in the sins of the world
to fuel his self-hatred. There is a brilliant imagination at play
here, parodying society through outrageous plots that abound with
weird sex and surreal terrorism. Palahniuk ridicules a society that
cements the cracks in its facade with meaningless jobs and
meaningful addictions but manages to allow Victor to find a strange
sort of redemption. (Kirkus UK)
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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