Victor Mancini is a charismatic, sex addicted, colonial theme park guide, and is far from your typical man. Chuck Palahniuk, the author of many infamously psychologically disturbing books, takes his readers through the life of a boy who was emotionally abused and constantly abandoned throughout his childhood and is now full grown into someone that no one would take home to Thanksgiving dinner.
When Victor finds himself putting his mother in an elderly care facility, he also runs into trouble paying her medical bills. Victor begins to pull a scam where everyone wins. As he intentionally chokes on food, he makes his rescuers heroes and in a moment where emotions are high, Victor forms an everlasting bond with his savior- or so the "hero" assumes. Those who "save" him give him money on birthdays and holidays, as if they are responsible for the life that they so willingly and courageously rescued.
At first glance, Victor is so psychologically disturbed that the reader is easily disgusted by his every sexual encounter and fraudulent action. Nevertheless, Palahniuk's witty way of going deeper into the mind of the outcast eventually leaves the reader feeling sympathy and admiration towards the protagonist.
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