Imperial Bedrooms
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
In this follow-up to his bestselling debut novel, Imperial Bedrooms sees Bret Easton Ellis reuinite with the privileged teenagers of his debauched Los Angeles, as they enter middle age.
Clay is a successful screenwriter, middle-aged and disaffected; he’s in LA to cast his new movie. However, this trip is anything other than professional. Soon, he's drifting through a louche and long-familiar circle – a world largely populated by the band of infamous teenagers first introduced in Bret Easton Ellis's first novel Less Than Zero.
After a meeting with a gorgeous but talentless actress determined to win a role in his movie, Clay finds himself connected with Kelly Montrose, a producer whose gruesomely violent death is suddenly very much the talk of the town. As his degenerate reverie is interrupted by a violent plot for revenge, his seemingly endless proclivity for betrayal and exploitation looks set to land him somewhere darker and more ominous than ever before.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ellis explores what disillusioned youth looks like 25 years later in this brutal sequel to Less Than Zero. Clay, now a screenwriter, returns at Christmas to an L.A. that looks and operates much as it did 25 years ago. Trent is now a producer and married to Clay's ex, Blair, while Julian runs an escort service and Rip, Clay's old dealer, has had so much plastic surgery he's unrecognizable. While casting a script he's written, Clay falls for a young, untalented actress named Rain Turner, and his obsession and affair with her powers him through an alcoholic haze that swirls with images of death, mysterious text messages, and cars lurking outside his apartment. The story takes on a creepy noirish bent with Clay as the frightened detective who doesn't really want to know anything as it barrels toward a conclusion that reveals the horror that lies at the center of a tortured soul. Ellis fans will delight in the characters and Ellis's easy hand in manipulating their fates, and though the novel's synchronicity with Zero is sublime, this also works as a stellar stand-alone.
Customer Reviews
Unfair pricing
I love Apple products, have several of them. However, I find both the individual pricing of iBook unjustifiably expensive and the store extremely undersupplied with quality material. Simply, we pay a premium for a sub standard product. Sad, hopefully not the changing face of a company forgetting its original identity. But this would not be a first. BEE still rocks though.
Less than Zero - 20 years on
Great book if you like his previous works, clever initial premise to reintroduce the characters, definitely recommend.
£2.50 more than the Kindle price?
...and £2 more than the hardback? I'm looking forward to reading this, but it'll be on paper at this price.