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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.

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palahniuk Is One Of The Freshest, Most Intriguing Voices To Appear In A Long Time. He Rearranges Vonnegut’s Sly Humor, Delillo’s Mordant Social Analysis, And Pynchon’s Antic Surrealism (or Is It R. Crumb’s?) Into A Gleaming Puzzle Palace All His Own.