Glamorama - Hardcover

Ellis, Bret Easton

 
9780375404122: Glamorama

Synopsis

A young man from the fashionable, celebrity-obsessed society of New York finds himself gradually drawn into a shadowy, dark side of that society, until he becomes trapped in terrifying world in which politics and family, terrorism and fame become inextricably intertwined. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

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About the Author

Bret Easton Ellis is the author of <b>Less Than Zero</b>; <b>The Rules of Attraction</b>; <b>The Informers</b>, a collection of stories; and <b>American Psycho</b>, all of which are available in Vintage paperback. He lives in New York City.

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down the surface of things . . .<br><br>From his first novel--<b>Less Than Zero</b>, published when he was still a college student--to his most recent--the fierce <b>American Psycho</b>Bret Easton Ellis has been a powerful and original presence in contemporary literature, whether giving voice to a previously inchoate generation or provoking a controversy that raged throughout the culture.<br><br> Now he takes a quantum leap forward: an awesome reckoning of the American Century at endgame. In <b>Glamorama</b>, a young man in what is recognizably fashion- and celebrity-obsessed Manhattan is gradually, imperceptibly drawn into a shadowy looking-glass of that society, there and in London and Paris, and then finds himself trapped on the other side, <br>in a much darker place where fame and terrorism and family and politics are inextricably linked and sometimes indistinguishable. At once implicated and horror-stricken, his ways of escape blocked at every turn, he ultimately

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