Choke: A30552 (Folio. Policier)

Praise for Chuck Palahniuk:
"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."
--"Newsday
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"Palahniuk displays a Swiftian gift for satire, as well as a knack for crafting mesmerizing sentences that loom with stark, prickly prose and repetitive rhythms."
--"San Francisco Examiner
""Even I can't write this well."
--Thom Jones
"Palahniuk's language is urgent and tense, touched with psychopathic brilliance, his images dead-on accurate....[He] is an author who makes full use of the alchemical powers of fiction to synthesize a universe that mirrors our own fiction as a way of illuminating the world without obliterating its complexity."
--"L.A. Weekly
""Maybe our generation has found its Don DeLillo."
--Bret Easton Ellis

"From the Hardcover edition."

"Sheer, anarchic fierceness of imagination. . . . Raw and vital."--"The New York Times""Puts a bleakly humorous spin on self-help, addiction recovery, and childhood trauma. . . . Funny mantra-like prose plows toward the mayhem it portends from the get-go."--"The Village Voice""Palahniuk has a vision that's distinctive. Like it or loathe it, Choke cannot be dismissed. Nor can its creator."--"Houston Chronicle""Few contemporary writers mix the outrageous and the hilarious with greater zest. . . . Chuck Palahniuk's splenetic, anarchic glee makes him a worthy heir to Ken Kesey."--"Newsday"

Victor Mancini est figurant dans un " musée vivant " où le moindre anachronisme est puni par la mise au pilori avec suspension de salaire. Il est sexoolique, drogué du sexe en thérapie verbale, incapable d'aimer. Son meilleur ami se promène avec des cailloux enroulés dans des couvertures et sa mère, folle à lier, le ruine sans jamais reconnaître en lui le fils dont elle a ravagé l'enfance... Pour quelles raisons ? Où se niche véritablement la folie ? Pourquoi Victor continue-t-il de se faire vomir publiquement dans des restaurants chics et qui saura lui révéler l'incroyable secret de sa naissance ? Un livre de Palahniuk ne se résume pas, c'est déjanté, subversif et incroyablement lucide.