Imperial Bedrooms
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3.6 • 98 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to Less Than Zero, set on the seedy side of Los Angeles. • "A haunting vision of disillusionment, twenty-first-century style" (People).
Returning to Los Angeles from New York, Clay, now a successful screenwriter, is casting his new movie. Soon he is running with his old circle of friends through L.A.’s seedy side. His ex-girlfriend, Blair, is married to Trent, a bisexual philanderer and influential manager. Then there's Julian, a recovering addict, and Rip, a former dealer. Then when Clay meets a gorgeous young actress who will stop at nothing to be in his movie, his own dark past begins to shine through, and he has no choice but to dive into the recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal.
Customer Reviews
Revisiting
Written from the perspective of Clay two decades plus after being introduced in "Less Than Zero", we are privy to the lives of the same cast of characters, adults now, who have now insinuated themselves into the professional fabric of Los Angeles. All equally as vacuous, every one filled with a vituperative cunning, we witness these young adults unravel a mystery that has all of the Bret Easton Ellis trademarks: spasms of surreal violence, a culture with a fetishistic worship of ephemera(fame/money/youth etc.), a detached nonchalance dominating the proceedings(descriptions of torture and eating lunch having the exact same tone for example); in short, the markings of an Ellis novel.
Post Modern(sorry) noir at it's zenith. A must read for both Ellis fans and also crime/noir aficionados.
Complete crap
I’ve been a fan of the writer for decades and as I was greatly anticipating this book, it was the biggest let down ever. I would pay to get the time back that I wasted reading this wet rag. Don’t waste your efforts…it’s far from the book it follows.