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| Author | Chuck Palahniuk |
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| Cover artist | Rodrigo Corral |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Satirical novel |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | July 21, 2015 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 240 |
| ISBN | 978-0345807113 |
Beautiful You is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, released October 21, 2014. It is set in New York City and follows the main character, Penny, who finds herself the object of affection of a Digital Age tycoon named C. Linus Maxwell, known to the Manhattan elite as "Cli-Max well". [1] [2]
Penny is romantically wooed by Maxwell and unwittingly becomes the latest in a line of women he is using as guinea pigs to experiment his high-tech line of sex toys on. Though these toys bring on a complete state of orgasmic bliss, once released to the masses they cause all of women in society to "check out" from their lives, leaving men without partners and eventually modern life in ruins.
Maxwell then uses his wealth and influence to assert power over mankind, but Penny (along with a group of renegade women) develops a set of supernatural powers through her own sexual abilities that she uses to take Maxwell down and restore right to the world.
