Bret Easton Ellis

Patrick Bateman er en på alle måter vellykket 26-åring fra New York. Men han er også drapsmann. En psykopatisk massemorder som mishandler og dreper med kaldt blod, på samme pedantiske måte som han utfører morgentoalettet. Romanen er et oppgjør med en livsstil og et samfunn på vei mot undergangen.

Becoming a best-selling novelist and wealthy celebrity while still in college, only to have his fame disintegrate in a sea of booze, drugs, and vilification, the narrator gets a new chance at life married to the mother of a previously unacknowledged son and living in suburbia, but now his new life unravels in the wake of a series of grotesque murders and the disappearance of young boys. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

'One of the most disturbing novels I've read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality' - Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times". In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, "Less Than Zero". Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist. Twenty-five years on, "Less Than Zero" continues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across the globe. Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, "Less Than Zero" - narrated by Clay, an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas - is a fierce coming-of-age story, justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth, its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity, and its author's refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour. 'An extraordinarily accomplished first novel' - "New Yorker". 'The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation' - "USA Today". 'Remarkable. A killer - sexy, sassy, sad' - "Village Voice".

"Eine literarische Markierung des ausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts." Hubert Winkels Patrick Bateman sieht gut aus, ist gut erzogen und intelligent. Tagsüber sitzt er in seinem Büro in der Wall Street und vergrößert seinen Reichtum. Seine Nächte hingegen verbringt er auf unfaßbare Weise. Er ist ein Serienmörder und lebt seinen ganz eigenen amerikanischen Traum. "American Psycho läuft drohend, grollend wie ein Unwetter an, und plötzlich schlägt der grausame Blitz ein: Die Banalität des Schrecklichen, die wir verdrängen wollen, trifft uns und zwingt uns, das Unerträgliche wahrzunehmen: die Oberflächlichkeit, die Brutalität, mit der wir uns abfinden. In einer Medienwelt, die jedes Thema lächelnd in drei Minuten abhandelt--vom Holocaust über die Salatbar zum Krieg--ist dieses Buch ein Schuß ins Herz, Picassos Guernica vergleichbar." Elke Heidenreich

Gerade 20 Jahre alt, schreibt 1984 ein amerikanischer Student namens Bret Easton Ellis die Abschlußarbeit für einen Creative-writing-Kurs. Der Schriftsteller Joe McGinnis, sein Lehrer, ist so begeistert, daß er das Manuskript einem angesehenen New Yorker Verlag schickt, wo es unter dem Titel Less Than Zero tatsächlich erscheint. Unter Null entwickelt sich zum Kultbuch. Die jungen Amerikaner finde sich wieder in B. E. Ellis' Geschichte von Clay und seinen Freunden im Los Angeles der 80er Jahre, diese Kinder reicher, aber gelangweilter Eltern, die ihrem mondänen Leben zwischen Partys, Sex, Drogen und Gewalt kaum noch einen Kick, geschweige denn einen Sinn abgewinnen können. "Lindsey und ich gehen die Treppe rauf zur Toilette und ziehen uns auf dem Klo ein bißchen Koks rein. Über dem Waschbecken, auf dem Spiegel, steht in großen schwarzen Buchstaben: Das Reich des Stumpfsinns."

Romaanin Ellis asuu esikaupungin perukoilla vaimonsa, poikansa ja tytärpuolensa kanssa. Kohtalokkaissa halloween-pippaloissa Ellis näkee vilaukselta levottomuutta herättävän (fiktiivisen) hahmon, auton, joka on aivan samanlainen kuin hänen isävainaansa auto; tytärpuolen nukke alkaa käyttäytyä epänormaalisti ja talossa alkaa tapahtua outoja muutoksia. Ellis yhdistää nämä muutokset toisiin, vakavampiin tapahtumiin – sarjamurhiin ja nuorten poikien katoamisiin – ja yrittää epätoivoisesti puolustaa perhettään. Vaimo, terapeutti ja poliisi väittävät, että hänen pelkonsa ovat turhia, aineiden väärinkäytön ja egomaanisuuden synnyttämiä. Lunar Park aiheuttaa lukijalle hämmennyksen toisensa perään. Se muuttuu komediasta psykologiseksi ja yliluonnolliseksi kauhuksi ja käsittelee matkan varrella rakkautta ja menetyksiä, isiä ja poikia. Teos on sekä syvästi henkilökohtainen että uskomattoman mielikuvituksellinen.

The New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero delivers a gripping and brilliant dissection of our celebrity obsessed culture. - "Arguably the novel of the 1990's... Should establish Ellis as the most ambitious and fearless writer of his generation...a must read." --The Seattle Times Set in 90s Manhattan, Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn't been and with people he doesn't know. He's living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another on the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York City history. And now it's time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind. With the same deft satire and savage wit he has brought to his other fiction, Bret Ellis gets beyond the facade and introduces us, unsparingly, to what we always feared was behind it. Glamorama shows us a shadowy looking-glass reality, the juncture where fame and fashion and terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives.

From the New York Times bestselling author or Less Than Zero and American Psycho--a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England with no plans for the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a romantic triangle. - "An extraordinary writer." --LA WeeklyBret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives. Lauren changes boyfriends every time she changes majors and still pines for Victor who split for Europe months ago and she might or might not be writing anonymous love letter to ambivalent, hard-drinking Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren, even if he ends up in bed with half the campus, and Paul, Lauren's ex, forthrightly bisexual and whose passion masks a shrewd pragmatism. They waste time getting wasted, race from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Dressed To Get Screwed parties to drinks at The Edge of the World or The Graveyard. The Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance. The basis for the major motion picture starring James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, and Kate Bosworth.

From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a nihilistic novel set in the early eighties that portrays a chilling descent into the abyss beneath L. A.'s gorgeous surfaces. - "Skillfully accomplishes its goal of depicting a modern moral wasteland.... Arguably Ellis's best." --The Boston Globe The basis of the major motion picture starring Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke, The Informers is a seductive and chillingly nihilistic novel, in which Bret Easton Ellis, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose moral badlands he portrayed so unforgettably in Less Than Zero. This time is the early eighties. The characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard over a car radio. They have sex with the same boys and girls and buy from the same dealers. In short, they are connected in the only way people can be in that city. Dirk sees his best friend killed in a desert car wreck, then rifles through his pockets for a last joint before the ambulance comes. Cheryl, a wannabe newscaster, chides her future stepdaughter, "You're tan but you don't look happy." Jamie is a clubland carnivore with a taste for human blood.