Lunar Park - Hardcover

Ellis, Bret Easton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375412913 ISBN 13: 9780375412912

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Becoming a best-selling novelist and wealthy celebrity while still in college, only to have his fame disintegrate in a sea of booze, drugs, and vilification, the narrator gets a new chance at life married to the mother of a previously unacknowledged son and living in suburbia, but now his new life unravels in the wake of a series of grotesque murders and the disappearance of young boys. 125,000 first printing.

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Review:

..demonstrates a reinvigorated talent that is all the more impressive for its funny and frightening portayal of failure -- Novel of the Week, The Telegraph, 1st October

..has a mesmerising and elegiac ending which transcends the genre crescendo in the book's second half.. -- The Telegraph magazine, 1st Oct

Here is a book that progresses from darkness and banality to light and epiphany with suprising strength and sureness. -- Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly, 23rd September 2005

The creepiest insight..and the most mature-is that some such longings may even survive death. -- Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly, 23rd September 2005

Book Description:

Imagine becoming a bestselling novelist while still in college, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, then seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, even as your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze and drugs. Imagine being given a second chance, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given. Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting psychological and supernatural horror toward an astonishing resolution – about love and loss, fathers and sons – in what is surely the most original and moving novel of an extraordinary career. 'Lunar Park is great enough to suggest that his best work may now be ahead rather than behind him; it's a very interesting ride with an always interesting novelist' The Times 'Emotionally powerful, Lunar Park is an unnerving and funny puzzle of a book: undoubtedly the real thing, as it were' Guardian 'Bret Easton Ellis has finally delivered the classic novel he promised with his wildly successful debut, Less Than Zero' Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0375412913
• ISBN 13: 9780375412912
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 308