Lunar Park
(Bret Easton Ellis)
The Pete Doherty of the literary world, Bret Easton Ellis shows us once again that dispite spending his millions on cocain and material excess, that he has produced yet another classic. With Lunar Park we are treated to a facinating insight into the privaliged life of a wealthy author and in great detail into his personal life. Its an up to date story which is cleverly intertwined with chracters from his previous novels returning to haunt the troubled writer.
Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho ( probably his best known book which was made into a film starring Christian Bale ) and it's fictional character Patrick Bateman, the mass murderer in the Armani suit, takes the lead role of Bret's creations who are torturing the damaged mind of Bret. After years of drug abuse, halucinations have become part of of Bret's day to day life and unfortunatly affect his family ( and his dog ).
The originality of the book was truely amazing with Bret Easton Ellis having to confront his demons and Patrick Bateman copycats. Books he had writen years ago and almost forgoten about except when collecting royalty checks, now have to be dealt with again when Bret realises that Patrick Bateman did not die at the end of American Psycho.
When so many authors and film makers take the option of following up success with sequals, and quite rightly so if thats what the puplic wants, this book is a real original in blurring fact with fiction and the genious way in which Bret has delt with the position he is in by unifying the previous books, and giving us a bit of a biography all in the one conclusion.
Although the forenote saying that everything in the book is true, and only adding to the mystery for people who dont know. If the book is true then you have to feel sorry for Bret and you understand why the book had to be writen.
This book is a classicand it draws you in like a portal into Brets world that you do not want to close. But is it fact or fiction? It's niether. It's both. We are left to make up our own minds. Lunar Park is officialy one of the Top 10 books of 2005. Lunar Park is quite simply the best book about an author that I have ever read.
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