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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
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ISBN13: 9780679735779 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
Review:
"The first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themes....[Ellis] is showing older authors where the hands have come to on the clock....He has forced us to look at intolerable material, and so few novelists try for that anymore." Norman Mailer, Vanity Fair
Review:
"Bret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and] American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel....The novelist's function is to keep a running tag on the progress of the culture; and he's done it brilliantly....A seminal book." Fay Weldon, The Washington Post
Review:
"A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitions, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book." Katherine Dunn
Review:
"A great novel. What Emerson said about genius, that it's the return of one's rejected thoughts with an alienated majesty, holds true for American Psycho....There is a fever to the life of this book that is, in my reading, unknown in American literature." Michael Tolkin, author of The Player
Review:
"This book is not pleasure reading, but neither is it pornography. It is a serious novel that comments on a society that has become inured to suffering." Library Journal
Review:
"American Psycho's social criticism is purely sophomoric — horrifying only for its author's utter lack of narrative skill. To say that Ellis creates two-dimensional characters would be to flatter his understanding of human nature. (Grade: F)" Gene Lyons, Entertainment Weekly
Synopsis:
Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). <BR>In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
About the Author
Bret Easton Ellis is the author of Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, The Informers, and Glamorama. He was born in 1964 and raised in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Bennington College and lives in New York City.
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yulinkaa, November 14, 2007 (view all comments by yulinkaa)
This is a very interesting book, though it may be hard to follow at some points...its still quite capturing.
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jezzicasellers, December 21, 2006 (view all comments by jezzicasellers)
This is my favorite book. Bret Easton Ellis is a fantastic writer. American Psycho is not only a book but an experience, THE experience. Do yourself a huge mind blowing favor and read it, you won't regret it.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780679735779
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books USA
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Women
- Subject:
- New york (n.y.)
- Subject:
- Horror
- Subject:
- Movie-TV Tie-In
- Subject:
- Horror tales
- Subject:
- Wall street
- Subject:
- Horror - General
- Copyright:
- 1991
- Edition Number:
- 1st ed.
- Edition Description:
- Paperback
- Series:
- Vintage Contemporaries
- Series Volume:
- 9335
- Publication Date:
- March 6, 1991
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 416
- Dimensions:
- 8.04x5.30x.90 in. .79 lbs.
