Glamorama
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- € 7,99
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- € 7,99
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Een diabolische, eindeloos fascinerende trip door de New Yorkse glitterwereld, een gruwelkabinet waarin terroristen de modewereld als dekmantel gebruiken.
'Een nieuwe, verrassend spannende verbeelding van Ellis'wereld van angst en wezenloze nostalgie; een hypnotische samenzweringsthriller, zo noir als de macht.' HP/De Tijd
'Glamorama begint als een satire op het klatergouduniversum van fotomodellen, popsterren, acteurs en andere beroemdheden, maar ontaardt algauw in een postmodern griezelverhaal dat de grenzen tussen werkelijkheid en fantasie doet verdwijnen.'- NRC Handelsblad
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The evil twin of fellow brat-packer Jay McInerney's Model Behavior, Ellis's (The Informers) bad trip through glitterary New York has everything his fans (and critics) have come to expect: graphic sex, designer drugs, rock 'n' roll allusions, splatterpunk violence and characters as deep as 8"x10" glossies. Protagonist Victor Ward, a "model-slash-loser," is opening his own trendy Manhattan club while cheating on his supermodel girlfriend and back-stabbing his partner. After some adventures in clubland, the plot takes a turn for the paranoid. Victor is recruited by a mysterious figure, F. Fred Palakon, to track down a former girlfriend gone missing in London. There he becomes unwillingly drawn into a terrorist group--run, like so much else in the novel, by a supermodel--that bombs fashionable hangouts, hotels and jetliners. Throughout, Ellis clutters his hallmark proper-noun realism with excessive name-dropping and strung-out plotting. The satirist in Ellis seems to want to indict celebrity-obsessed, materialistic and superficial contemporary culture. With this novel he, perhaps unwittingly but certainly ironically, provides Exhibit A. 100,000 first printing.
