Snuff (novel)

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name = Snuff
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Chuck Palahniuk
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel, satire
publisher = Doubleday
release_date = May 20, 2008
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 208
isbn = ISBN 978-0385517881 (first edition, hardcover)

"Snuff" is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk that was released on May 20, 2008.

Book Description

Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication porn movies. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds through the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, Mr. 600, and Wright's personal assistant, Sheila. With his satirical narrative and thorough research, Chuck Palahniuk reveals through these four characters the little-known facts and histories of not only pornography and sexual deviance, but also acting and life in and out of the spotlight, and throughout the novel shows the rarely acknowledged presence of pornography in modern America.

Plot

"Snuff" follows three men who are waiting to immortalize themselves into pornography history as they wait to bed Cassie Wright, a former porn queen who has fallen into harder times. Each chapter follows a different guy (Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600), as well as Sheila, the female wrangler who dictates who is the next to be filmed with Cassie Wright. As the three men wait, each starts to divulge their true reasons for wanting to be filmed, as well as discuss the sordid history of Cassie Wright and her reason for suddenly dropping out of the pornography industry for a year. As backgrounds, secrets, and would-be children start to appear, the tensions in the room start to rise and in the end the true secrets of her comeback, and who really is Cassie Wright's porn child, are the last things any of them suspect.

Background

*The story was originally inspired by Annabel Chong, who set the record for engaging in 251 sex acts with around 70 men in 10 hours.
*The book release around Mother's Day is intentional, due to one of the subplots of the novel involving a mother-child relationship.

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