American Psycho

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other.

"A seminal book." --The Washington Post

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.

"A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing.... An important book." --Katherine Dunn, bestselling author of Geek Love

Look for Bret Easton Ellis's latest novel, The Shards!

Author: Bret Easton Ellis
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/06/1991
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780679735779


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/1991

About the Author
BRET EASTON ELLIS is the author of Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, The Informers, Glamorama, Lunar Park, and Imperial Bedrooms. His works have been translated into twenty-seven languages. Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, and The Informers have all been made into films. He lives in Los Angeles.