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"Victor Mancini, a dropout from medical school, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's elder care: Pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who "saves you", will feel responsible for the rest of his life. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of checks, week in, week out. Between fake choking gigs, Victor works at Colonial Dunsboro with a motley group of losers and stoners...
3) Adèle
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Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex. Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap...
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"When does desire cross the line between lust and obsession? It can begin with a glance or even just a glimpse. Then suddenly all those peripheral matters in life - Mom's birthday, dinner with friends, eating, sleeping, breathing - get shoved out of their usual comfortable spots in your brain to make room for the thing that makes you jack off like a 16-year-old and pray like a nun: obsession."--P. [4] of cover.