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Bret Easton Ellis's new novel explores the end of innocence and the challenging transition from adolescence to adulthood in a vividly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981, where a serial killer targets teenagers. Seventeen-year-old Bret, a senior at Buckley prep school, becomes captivated by the enigmatic new student, Robert Mallory, who harbors a secret while integrating into Bret's close-knit group. As Bret's obsession with Mallory deepens, he becomes increasingly fixated on the Trawler, a serial killer whose threats and acts of violence seem to encroach upon their lives. The eerie coincidences blur the line between reality and Bret's imagination, as he grapples with the dangers surrounding him. Distrustful of his friends and his own perceptions, Bret descends into paranoia and isolation, with the looming connection between the Trawler and Mallory driving the narrative toward a tense climax. Set against the nostalgic backdrop of pre-Less Than Zero L.A., this novel masterfully intertwines fact and fiction, delving into the emotional complexities of Bret's life at seventeen, encompassing themes of sex, jealousy, obsession, and rage. Gripping and darkly humorous, it showcases Ellis's distinctive storytelling prowess.

Bret Easton Ellis is most famous for his era-defining novel American Psycho and its terrifying anti-hero, Patrick Bateman. With that book, and many times since, Ellis proved himself to be one of the world's most fearless and clear-sighted observers of society - the glittering surface and the darkness beneath. In White, his first work of non-fiction, Ellis offers a wide-ranging exploration of what the hell is going on right now. He tells personal stories from his own life. He writes with razor-sharp precision about the music, movies, books and TV he loves and hates. He examines the ways our culture, politics and relationships have changed over the last four decades. He talks about social media, Hollywood celebrities and Donald Trump. Ellis considers conflicting positions without flinching and adheres to no status quo. His forthright views are powered by a fervent belief in artistic freedom and freedom of speech. Candid, funny, entertaining and blisteringly honest, he offers opinions that are impossible to ignore and certain to provoke. What he values above all is the truth. 'The culture at large seemed to encourage discourse,' he writes, 'but what it really wanted to do was shut down the individual.' Bret Easton Ellis will not be shut down.

Patrick Bateman è giovane, bello, ricco. Vive a Manhattan, lavora a Wall Street e con i colleghi Timothy, David, Patten e Craig, frequenta i locali più alla moda, le palestre più esclusive e le toilette dove gira la migliore cocaina della città, discutendo di nuovi ristoranti, cameriere corpoduro ed eleganza maschile. Ma la sua vita è ricca di particolari piuttosto inquietanti e quando le tenebre scendono su New York, Patrick Bateman si trasforma in un torturatore omicida, freddo, metodico, spietato

In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist. Twenty-five years on, Less Than Zero continues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across the globe.Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, Less Than Zero - narrated by Clay, an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas - is a fierce coming-of-age story, justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth, its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity, and its author's refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour.

Clay, l’anti-héros du premier best-seller de Ellis, Moins que zéro, revient à Los Angeles. Il a vingt ans de plus, il est un peu plus vieux, un peu plus seul et désoeuvré. Il retrouve ceux qu’il a connus dans sa jeunesse, Blair, Trent, Julian, Rip... les représentants d’une génération dorée et perdue, abandonnés à la vacuité, la solitude et la vanité qui les détruisent. Producteur associé à l’adaptation cinématographique de son dernier scénario, Clay participe au casting du film, joue de son pouvoir, séduit Rain, une jeune actrice sublime et sans talent, lui fait de fausses promesses. Il est prêt à tout pour la posséder. Mais qui manipule qui ? Clay découvre vite qu’il est constamment observé et suivi...Jalousie, trahisons, meurtres, manipulations... ici, dans la Cité des Anges, chacun se heurte aux mêmes jeux d’emprise et aux mêmes démons, s’enivre de sexe, d’images, de drogues, de fêtes irréelles... et se révèle toujours plus amer et désespéré. Le vide et la fureur aspirent les personnages, et leur font perdre tout sens des limites. On est saisi par la virtuosité du style sobre et acéré, les chapitres courts donnent à la narration un rythme percutant. L’atmosphère est oppressante, la noirceur non dépourvue d’humour. L’angoisse et la tension croissantes annoncent une lente descente aux enfers. Le portrait de notre époque est aussi violent que subversif.

Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle that will leave him no choice but to plumb the darkest recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal.

This book offers a narrative that intertwines genders, generations, and identities, featuring characters in LA who share a profound connection through their collective experience of soul-crushing suffering.

Stel je eens voor dat, terwijl je nog studeert, je eerste boek een enorme bestseller wordt en je in een klap wereldberoemd en rijk bent, je onuitstaanbare vader net is overleden en je verdrinkt in een zee van drank, drugs en kwaadsprekerij. Stel je eens voor dat je een tweede kans zou krijgen, zoals de hoofdpersoon Bret Easton Ellis in deze roman overkomt. Nu is hij getrouwd met de moeder van zijn zoon die hij eerder niet erkende, en wonen ze in een kleinsteedse periferie, waar Ellis’ nieuwe leven zich ontrafelt. Op zijn Halloweenfeest vangt hij een verontrustende glimp op van het hoofdpersonage uit American Psycho; hij ziet de auto van zijn overleden vader rijden; er is iets helemaal mis met het knuffelbeest van zijn stiefdochter; en ook in en om het huis gebeuren vreemde dingen. Tel daar de recente moorden en mysterieuze verdwijningen bij op en je kunt je voorstellen dat het Ellis de allergrootste moeite kost om zijn familie en zichzelf tegen de gekte te beschermen – zelfs als zijn vrouw, hun therapeut en de politie hem verzekeren dat zijn bange voorgevoelens alleen voortkomen uit zijn drugs- en drankmisbruik en extreme egoïsme.

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.

L'auteur de Moins que zéro décrit dans son deuxième livre une nouvelle descente aux enfers qui se situe à l'université. Ses héros, des étudiants issus d'une bourgeoisie typée, trempent, d'une dérive à l'autre, dans les illusions du sexe et de la drogue, sur un fond de rock... Bret Easton Ellis peint une génération en négatif, en montrant les impasses des désirs, des urgences existentielles et des manques. Tout cela au moyen d'une écriture sobre, rapide et brute. La phraséologie de cette décennie contient à elle seule toute une micro-histoire. Une langue.

Sex and the city is a polished, savage and sexy look at the mating habits of Manhattan's beautiful people. How do successful, attractive, thirty-something career women find lasting love in a town full of gorgeous, single, rich men, none of whom want to settle down?

The author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world.In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture and increases the volume exponentially. Set in 90s Manhattan, Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn't been and with people he doesn't know. He's living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another onthe eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York City history.And now it's time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind. With the same deft satire and savage wit he has brought to his other fiction, Bret Ellis gets beyond the facade and introduces us, unsparingly, to what we always feared was behind it. Glamorama shows us a shadowy looking-glass reality, the juncture where fame and fashion and terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives."

Tredici racconti che ci immergono nella Los Angeles degli anni Ottanta. Tredici istantanee di un mondo troppo patinato per essere vero, eppure troppo riconoscibile per essere falso.

Set in Los Angeles, in the recent past. The birthplace and graveyard of American myths and dreams, the city harbours a group of people trapped between the beauty of their surroundings and their own moral impoverishment. This novel is a chronicle of their voices.

Patrick Bateman is Harvard-educated and intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. His nights he spends in ways we cannot begin to fathom - doing impermissible things to women. He is living his own "American Dream."

From the New York Times bestselling author or Less Than Zero and American Psycho—a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England with no plans for the future—or even the present—who become entangled in a romantic triangle. • “An extraordinary writer.” —LA Weekly Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives. Lauren changes boyfriends every time she changes majors and still pines for Victor who split for Europe months ago and she might or might not be writing anonymous love letter to ambivalent, hard-drinking Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren, even if he ends up in bed with half the campus, and Paul, Lauren's ex, forthrightly bisexual and whose passion masks a shrewd pragmatism. They waste time getting wasted, race from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Dressed To Get Screwed parties to drinks at The Edge of the World or The Graveyard. The Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance. The basis for the major motion picture starring James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, and Kate Bosworth.

Clay comes home on break from his East Coast college to a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where the natives drive Porsches, dine at Spago, and gobble their Quaaludes from Pez dispensers. Where else can Clay go but down? "A teenage slice-of-death novel, no holds barred".--VILLAGE VOICE. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.