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AMERICAN PSYCHO

Price: £5.99
ISBN 13: 
978-0-330-52098-0
Number of pages: 
399
First published: 
1991
This edition: 
2010
Blurb: 

Now a major film starring Christian Bale -- from the front cover

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to face and it takes us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream -- and its worst nightmare.

Biographical note(s): 

Bret Easton Ellis is the author of four other novels and a collection of stories, which have been translated into twenty-seven languages. He divides his time between Los Angeles and New York.

Quotes about: 

'A very, very good author . . . American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel' -- Fay Weldon

'A serious, clever and shatteringly effective piece of writing . . . For its savagely coherent picture of a society lethally addicted to blandness, it should be judged by the highest standards' -- John Walsh, Sunday Times

'That the book's contents are shocking is downright undeniable, but just as Bonfire of the Vanities exposed the corruption and greed engendered in eighties politics and high living, American Psycho examines the mindless preoccupations of the nineties preppy generation' -- Maria Lexton, Time Out

'Ellis's book is, ultimately and valuably, a black-hearted satire on the terrible power of money' -- Jenny Turner, Scotsman

'His superb, misunderstood American Psycho, a satire in which the hedonistic, coke-fuelled consumerism of the Eighties was taken to its brutal conclusion. Mirroring the lethal vacuousness of his narrator with ice-cool prose and an unflinching eye, Easton Ellis avoided the easy option of playing the moralist author' -- Terence Blacker, Mail on Sunday