Choke by Chuck Palahniuk SIGNED! [FIRST EDITION] 2001 • Doubleday

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk 

FIRST EDITION [2001] DOUBLEDAY

*6th printing with pre-title page signed by Palahniuk and inscribed "To Nicole, You Need Help"

Hardcover with dust jacket in fair condition. 

Dust jacket is in very nice shape.  Sharp clean and in tact; now housed in a new hq brodart jacket protector.

Book itself is flawed; boards show soiling and some heavy rub wear.  Discoloration to text block.  Reads nicely however; pages are clean and crisp for the most part.  

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.