Beautiful You
by Chuck Palahniuk
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Pub Date 6 Nov 2014 | Archive Date 30 Nov 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Jonathan Cape
Description
From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more...
Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka 'Climax-Well', a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed of heights of orgasmic pleasure for days on end. What's not to like?
This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of sex toys to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called 'Beautiful You'. So potent and effective are these devices that women by the millions line up outside the stores on opening day and then lock themselves in their room with them and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell's plan for erotically enabled world domination must be stopped. But how?
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition – available to read in UK, Commonwealth excluding Canada.
Advance Praise
Praise for Doomed:
'It's not for the faint-stomached. It's also rather brilliant… A grand, funny, troubling and rewarding read.'
Euan Ferguson, Observer
'Funny, bloody and always original. But then we should expect nothing less from the creator of Fight Club.'
The Sun
Praise for Chuck Palahniuk:
'Palahniuk's
grotesque, exaggerated portrait of American society certainly isn't
pretty, but it grips like a vice all the same.''
The Times
'An immensely skilful writer.'
Daily Telegraph
Marketing Plan
A billion husbands are about to be replaced.
In a world where sex addiction is an acknowledged disease and Fifty Shades of Grey is the best-selling book of the century by far, the outrageous premise of Beautiful You doesn't seem all that outrageous anymore
Chuck Palahniuk commands one of the most loyal, committed, and interactive fanbases in the literary world.
Author readings attract crowds in the many hundreds, routinely, and they buy books. Not to forget, from the author of Fight Club: more than 1.4 million paperbacks sold to date.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780224099059 |
| PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |
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