Beautiful You

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$18.00 US
Knopf | Anchor
24 per carton
On sale Jul 21, 2015 | 9780345807113
Sales rights: US, Opn Mkt (no CAN)

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.

"[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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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.

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