Snuff [Paperback]

'... confirms Palahniuk once again as a compelling, daring and vital writer.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

'...if he set out to see if a novel could still shock, Palahniuk has succeeded' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

`memorably revolting'
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a novel about a porn queen's attempt to break the world's record for consecutive acts of sexual intercourse on film. Or die trying... --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

In the crowded greenroom of a porn-movie production, hundreds of men mill around in their boxers, awaiting their turn with the legendary Cassie Wright. An aging adult film star, Cassie Wright intends to cap her career by breaking the world record for serial fornication by having sex with 600 men on camera—one of whom may want to kill her. Told from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, Mr. 600, and Sheila, the talent wrangler who must keep it all under control, Snuff is a dark, wild, and lethally funny novel that brings the presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction.

'Just what you might expect from a writer continually pushing at the boundaries of literature...Palahniuk writes at breakneck pace, a relentlessly compelling style which draws you inexorably towards the ultimate car-crash of a climax... confirms Palahniuk once again as a compelling, daring and vital writer' The Herald

Cassie Wright, porn princess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr 72, Mr 137 and Mr 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room...

'A deliciously disturbing, superbly paced and graphically obnoxious read. It's funny as f**k, too' Maxim

'Snuff is Chernobyl of taboos... He is like Tom Wolfe on acid, and poppers and speed. Think of it as The Bonfire of the Inanities. Once you have come down and mopped up the vomit, you will be glad you snorted this particular snuff' Johann Hari, Independent

'You'll bite your pillow laughing at the ending' Arena

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK's eight novels are the bestselling Rant, Haunted, Lullaby, Fight Club - which was made into a film by director David Fincher - Diary, Survivor, Invisible Monsters and Choke. He is also the author of the non-fiction profile of Portland, Fugitives and Refugees, published as part of the Crown Journeys series, and the non-fiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.