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One of the most maligned, misunderstood, and well-read books of the 1990s makes its first-ever United States hardcover appearance. This new edition features terrific cover art, a new introduction by John Langan, and a lengthy interview with the author. All copies signed by the author.
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Brett Easton Ellis established a reputation as the enfant terrible of American fiction in the 1980s with his controversial novel Less than Zero, but with the publication of American Psycho he became established as one of the most notorious and reviled novelists currently writing. American Psycho deserves its controversy. The novel opens with a sign scrawled above a New York subway station: "Abandon hope all ye who enter". So begins a hellish descent into the world of Patrick Bateman, the novel's protagonist. Bateman is a handsome 26-year-old Wall Street yuppie, who spends his days listening to Whitney Houston and working out which exclusive restaurant to eat in and what clothes to wear in a dizzying parody of 1980s consumerism run mad.
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However, Bateman also has a darker side; he is a psychopathic serial killer, with a penchant for torturing and sexually abusing young women before killing them in the most gruesome and explicit fashion. The novel contains little actual plot, and consists of extended descriptions of exclusive restaurants, designer clothes, TV shows and the minutiae of Bateman's vacuous world, relieved only by clinically described scenes of torture and mutilation which are not for the faint-hearted. Bateman makes little attempt to justify his actions, merely claiming that "this is the way the world--my world--moves". As a satire on the bankrupt, money-driven world of the 1980s, American Psycho is a successful, if rather heavy-handed piece of fiction, whose controversy seems only set to increase. --Jerry Brotton
American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel . . . The novelist's function is to keep a running tag on the progress of the culture; and he's done it brilliantly . . . A seminal book (Fay Weldon Washington Post)
Serious, clever and shatteringly effective (Sunday Times)
For its savagely coherent picture of a society lethally addicted to blandness, it should be judged by the highest standards (John Walsh Sunday Times)
That the book's contents are shocking is downright undeniable, but just as Bonfire of the Vanities exposed the corruption and greed engendered in eighties politics and high living, American Psycho examines the mindless preoccupations of the nineties preppy generation (Time Out)
The first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themes . . . Ellis is showing older authors where the hands have come to on the clock (Vanity Fair)
Our killer nonchalantly takes his blood-splattered clothes to the dry cleaners and gives them attitude when they complain about the stains . . . You'd think at least one of these witnesses would get suspicious or complain, but they don't (Bob Mack Spin)
Serious, clever and shatteringly effective (Sunday Times)
For its savagely coherent picture of a society lethally addicted to blandness, it should be judged by the highest standards (John Walsh Sunday Times)
That the book's contents are shocking is downright undeniable, but just as Bonfire of the Vanities exposed the corruption and greed engendered in eighties politics and high living, American Psycho examines the mindless preoccupations of the nineties preppy generation (Time Out)
The first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themes . . . Ellis is showing older authors where the hands have come to on the clock (Vanity Fair)
Our killer nonchalantly takes his blood-splattered clothes to the dry cleaners and gives them attitude when they complain about the stains . . . You'd think at least one of these witnesses would get suspicious or complain, but they don't (Bob Mack Spin)
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- PublisherCentipede Pr
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1613470193
- ISBN 13 9781613470190
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Baldwin, Ben (illustrator). 1st Edition Thus, Limited, Signed. First edition thus, hardcover, signed by Ellis, Langan and Baldwin, and marked no. 17/200 on the limitation page, the book has a tiny lean to the binding, and a hint of shelfwear to the spine ends and cover corners. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, sharp and clean, Near Fine copy in a Very Good+ dust jacket, which has very slight bumps to the spine ends and corners, a hint of rubbing to the covers, and some minor wear to the edges. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar, and additional images are available upon request. Seller Inventory # 108273
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