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Beautiful You

A Novel

A Novel

By Chuck Palahniuk

By Chuck Palahniuk

By Chuck Palahniuk

By Chuck Palahniuk

By Chuck Palahniuk

By Chuck Palahniuk

Paperback $16.00

Jul 21, 2015 | 240 Pages

Hardcover $25.95

Oct 21, 2014 | 240 Pages

Ebook $4.99

Oct 21, 2014 | 240 Pages

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    About Beautiful You

    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.

    About Beautiful You

    “A billion husbands are about to be replaced.”

    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 a new product that gives new meaning to the term “self-help.” 

    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, 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 gratification 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 feminine products 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 battery-powered world domination must be stopped. But how?

    About Beautiful You

    “A billion husbands are about to be replaced.”

    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 a new product that gives new meaning to the term “self-help.” 

    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, 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 gratification 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 feminine products 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 battery-powered world domination must be stopped. But how?

     




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    About Chuck Palahniuk

    CHUCK PALAHNIUK is the author of fourteen novels—Beautiful You, Doomed, Damned, Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Diary, Lullaby, Choke, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, and Fight Club—which have sold more than five million copies altogether in the United States. He is also the… More about Chuck Palahniuk

    About Chuck Palahniuk

    CHUCK PALAHNIUK is the author of fourteen novels—Beautiful You, Doomed, Damned, Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Diary, Lullaby, Choke, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, and Fight Club—which have sold more than five million copies altogether in the United States. He is also the… More about Chuck Palahniuk

    About Chuck Palahniuk

    CHUCK PALAHNIUK is the author of fourteen novels—Beautiful You, Doomed, Damned, Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Diary, Lullaby, Choke, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, and Fight Club—which have sold more than five million copies altogether in the United States. He is also the… More about Chuck Palahniuk

    Product Details

    Category: Contemporary Fantasy | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Anchor
    Jul 21, 2015 | 240 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780345807113

    Category: Contemporary Fantasy | Suspense & Thriller

    Hardcover | $25.95
    Published by Doubleday
    Oct 21, 2014 | 240 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780385538039

    Category: Contemporary Fantasy | Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Anchor
    Oct 21, 2014 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9780385538046

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    Praise

    “[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

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