American psycho : a novel / by Bret Easton Ellis.

American psycho : a novel / by Bret Easton Ellis.

First edition.

9780679735779 (pbk.)
0679735771 (pbk.)
0307278638
9780307278630

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., [1991]

English

399 pages ; 21 cm.

9780679735779

PS 3555.L5937 A8 1991

HU 3550
HU 9800
FIC015000
18.06

813/.54

In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films, released Spring 2000, starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. 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.

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