Beautiful You

Paperback | 14 July 2015

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Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm. She has an apartment, but no love life. When C. Linus Maxwell, a mega-billionaire and international playboy, invites her to dinner and then whisks her off to a hotel in Paris, where he brings her to undreamed-of heights of sexual gratification for days on end, Penny is, well, pleased. However, when Penny discovers she is a test subject for a line of female sex toys so effective that women by the millions are lining up outside the stores to buy it on opening day, she understands the gravity the situation. A billion husbands are about to be replaced. What is Maxwell really up to? Erotically enabled world domination? Penny sets out to discover his motivations, and with a little help, stop him before it is too late.

Industry Reviews

"[Palahniuk's] legion of fans will adore all its excesses. . . . Great fun..."--"San Francisco " "Genuinely shocking and entertaining." -- "The Times," London "Nothing is sacred and everything gets torched."--"USA Today" "Palahniuk continues to push limits in this satire of sex and consumerism. . . . There are some downright beautiful scenes."--"Publishers Weekly " Praise for "Beautiful You" "Sex is on the mind of author Chuck Palahniuk, and it is taken to extremes and tweaked to outrageous lengths in his latest novel, "Beautiful You." "50 Shades of Grey" this isn't. In fact, the book is almost a middle finger to "mommy porn" and the popularity of modern erotica -- while also being a smart, satirical take on misogyny, fame, the fashion industry, self-help and science... Palahniuk's graphic storytelling is bound to ruffle puritanical feathers--which is probably part of his point--but it's essential to the societal takedown. Nothing is sacred and everything gets torched, from pop culture (at one point vampire novels are used as thrown weapons, an obvious "Twilight" reference) to celebrity." --"USA Today" "[Palahniuk's] legion of fans will adore all its excesses.... [G]reat fun..." --"San Francisco Chronicle" "The author of "Fight Club" offers barbed social satire that turns Aristophanes' Lysistrata sideways; giving readers something to talk about." --"Library Journal" "Palahniuk continues to push limits in this satire of sex and consumerism... His cheeky wit is at its best in this grotesque novel; his semi-erotic writing is efficacious and there are some downright beautiful scenes." --"Publishers Weekly .".".[A] subtle and empathic piece of work." --"Kirkus Reviews" Praise for "Beautiful You" "Palahniuk continues to push limits in this satire of sex and consumerism... His cheeky wit is at its best in this grotesque novel; his semi-erotic writing is efficacious and there are some downright beautiful scenes." --"Publishers Weekly .".".[A] subtle and empathic piece of work." --Kirkus Reviews "The author of F"ight Club" offers barbed social satire that turns Aristophanes' Lysistrata sideways; giving readers something to talk about." --"Library Journal"

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