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May 1, 1985 · Bret Easton Ellis. 3.60. 87,775 ratings5,416 reviews. Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation that experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, growing up in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money.
C2 certified writer. ‘American Psycho’ by Bret Easton Ellis is a novel about a narcissistic psychopath and pathologically lonely 1980s Manhattan Wall Street investment banker, Patrick Bateman. The story follows Patrick as he enters the incomprehensible depths of madness to become a killer that enjoys torture and sadistic rape.
Jan 14, 2023 · Bret, the 17-year-old protagonist of Bret Easton Ellis’s sprawling new novel, “The Shards,” has been left alone at his parents’ house on Mulholland Drive for months at the start of his ...
Bret Easton Ellis (født 7. marts 1964 i Los Angeles, Californien), er en amerikansk forfatter, Han anses for at være en af de største postmoderniske forfattere i sin tid. Med sin roman American Psycho fra 1991 fik han sit gennembrud i hele verden som talsperson for sin generation, Generation X. Bret Easton Ellis' forlag nægtede at udgive American Psycho, da de mente den var for voldelig og kvindeundertrykkende.
Apr 16, 2019 · 5,274 ratings747 reviews. In White, his first work of nonfiction, Bret Easton Ellis combines social observation and personal reflection in a wide-ranging exploration of our era's manifold transformations. Throughout the book we witness him in various stages: a childhood in Los Angeles; a blazing youthful success with his debut novel, Less Than ...
Jan 17, 2023 · The Shards is another Bret Easton Ellis novel in which the author includes a warped version of himself as a character: this time, 17-year-old Bret Ellis is a student at Buckley, a prestigious LA prep school, in the 1980s. One can assume many details of the plot, in which Bret parties with his similarly wealthy friends and struggles with his sexuality and episodes of existential dread, are true to life – but the book diverges from reality when it introduces a serial killer, ‘The Trawler ...
Jan 12, 2023 · Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, “The Shards,” takes a nostalgic look back at 1981.It’s a murder thriller crossed with a coming-of-age tale, replete with Wayfarer sunglasses, quaaludes and ...
