num_pages: 293
description: 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.
language: English
title: Choke
titlecomplete: Choke
characters: Denny, Paige Marshall, Victor Mancini, Ida Mancini
genres: American, Dark, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 206839
places: The United States of America
publisher: Vintage