American Psycho

"American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis, published by Picador USA. In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. “The first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themes... [Ellis] is showing older authors where the hands come to on the clock.” - Norman Mailer, Vanity FairPatrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well-educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.“Bret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and] American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel... The novelist’s function is to keep a running tag on the progress of culture, and he’s done it brilliantly... seminal book.” - Fay Weldon, The Washington Post“A great novel. What Emerson said about genius, that it’s the return of one’s rejected thoughts with an alienated majesty, holds true for American Psycho... There is a fever to the life of this book that is, in my reading, unknown in American literature.” - Michael TolkinThis book is not pleasure reading, but neither is it pornography. It is a serious novel that comments on a society that has become inured to suffering. Book details: 384 pages, published 2011. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.