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Chuck Palahniuk's novels are notorious for their disturbing--and disturbingly fun--premises that slyly undermine the reader's sense of societal norms. In his ninth foray into our cultural underbelly, Palahniuk chronicles aging porn star Cassie Wright's greatest and nastiest chance at skin-flick notoriety as she attempts to have sex with 600 men in a single day. Though the material is raunchy, and the humor is as dark as ever, Palahniuk's bestseller succeeds through its sympathetic and surprisingly sincere character studies of three would-be studs, each waiting for his number to be called: Mr. 137, an over-the-hill actor also looking for one last hoorah in his career; Mr. 600, a porn maven who has known Wright from the beginning; and Mr. 72, a young man claiming to be one of Cassie's many abandoned children.
| Size | | Length: | 197 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 12.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Taken together, Palahniuk's oeuvre reads as a history of contemporary, late-capitalist America. Novels such as FIGHT CLUB and DIARY present the folktales and mythologies of our time, the stories that people a hundred years from now will read to correctly understand who we were. In SNUFF, he does a masterful job of putting all of our excesses, phobias and neuroses on full display."
(05/22/2008)
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