American Psycho
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4.3 • 867 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
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
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
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!
Customer Reviews
Amazing
I feel like I will become an actual psychopath if I read this again
A beautiful mix of gore, psychopathy, and abundance
Bret Easton Ellis, truly a powerhouse author, goes from 0 to 1000 in this introspective Into the upper class lifestyle of a New York financer as his life spirals into his insanity the crescendo is award-winning and should be talked about scholars from here until the end of time.
This book has every element of postmodern literature
American Psycho is extremely complex. The way the characters are aware of the world is advanced in every way possible. The narrator, Patrick Bateman, provides readers with both a window into a portrayal of an actual psychotic killer, and a satirical version of a successful wall street tycoon. In between killing sprees (which are more graphic than can be described in this review) and hilarious satire of daily routine and high quality products, there is quite dull and boring descriptions of what people are wearing and music reviews but that aside the book is superb.