American Psycho
(Lee Billingham)
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis has to be one of the most compelling and original books over the last two decades.
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. American Psycho is a bitter, bleak, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to face and it takes us on a head on collision with Americas greatest dream - and worst nightmare.
' A very,very good author...American psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel.' - FAY WELDON
' A serious, clever and shatteringly effective piece of writing...for its savagely coherent picture of a society lethally addicted to blandness, should it be judged by the highest standards.' - JOHN WALSH, SUNDAY TIMES
' That the books contents are shocking is downright undeniable. But just as Bonfire of the Vanities exposed corruption and greed engendered in eighties politics and high living, American Psycho examines the mindless preoccupations of the nineties preppy generation.' - MARIA LEXTON, TIME OUT
' Ellis's book is, ultimately and valuably, a black hearted satire on the terrible power of money.' - JENNY TURNER, SCOTSMAN
' His superb, misunderstood American Psycho, a satire in which the hedonistic, coke fuelled consumerism of the eighties was taken to it brutal conclusion. Mirroring the lethal vacuousness of his narrator with ice cool prose and an unflinching eye, Easton Ellis avoided the easy option of playing the moralist author.' - TERENCE BLACKER, MAIL ON SUNDAY
Bret Easton Ellis was born in Los Angeles in 1964 and graduatedfrom bennington college after his first novel, Less Than Zero, became a best seller. He has also written The Rules of Attraction, The Informers and Glamorama.
' American Psycho should be read by one and all, funny, frightening and original.' - LEE BILLINGHAM
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