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AMERICAN PSYCHO

Price: £7.00
ISBN 13: 
978-0-330-54453-5
Number of pages: 
384
First published: 
1991
This edition: 
2011
Blurb: 

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

Quotes about: 

'Serious, clever and shatteringly effective' -- Sunday Times

'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, Washington Post

'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' -- Time Out

'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' -- Norman Mailer, Vanity Fair

'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