''Beautiful You'' is a novel by

Chuck Palahniuk Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (; born February 21, 1962) is an American freelance journalist and novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He has published 19 novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, and two adul ...

, released October 21, 2014. It is set in

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and follows the main character, Penny, who finds herself the object of affection of a

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tycoon named C. Linus Maxwell, known to the Manhattan elite as "Cli-Max well".

References

2014 American novels Novels by Chuck Palahniuk Novels set in New York City Doubleday (publisher) books {{2010s-novel-stub