Staff Pick
Aging porn queen Cassie Wright plans to retire on a high note by having sex, on film, with 600 men. Yes, the title is Snuff, but it's not what you think. Not for the faint of heart, the graphic content is raunchy, bizarre, and shocking, but also hysterically funny. While Palahniuk can be an acquired taste, he is at his very best here. Recommended By Dianah H., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Cassie Wright, porn priestess, 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. This wild, lethally funny, and thoroughly researched novel brings the huge yet underacknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction at last. Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Who else could do it so well, so unflinchingly, and with such an incendiary (you might say) climax?
Review
"Palahniuk compassionately and candidly examines the flesh-on-film industry." ---Publishers Weekly
Review
""The notorious novelist's excursion into the world of porn might well be his most moralistic work to date." ---Kirkus
Synopsis
From Chuck Palahniuk, the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before.
About the Author
Chuck Palahniuk has published a number of novels, including Invisible Monsters and Fight Club, as well as such nonfiction works as Stranger Than Fiction.Todd McLaren was involved in radio for more than twenty years in cities on both coasts. He left broadcasting for a full-time career in voice-overs, where he has been heard on more than 5,000 TV and radio commercials, as well as TV promos, narrations for documentaries on such networks as A&E and the History Channel, and films.