American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. A man addicted to his superficial, perfect life, he pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare. Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, reservations at every new restaurant in town and a line of girls around the block.

Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. An international bestseller and true modern classic, American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront. A multimillion-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic, it is a violent black comedy about the darkest side of human nature. A seminal book - Fay Weldon * Washington Post * Reseña del editor:ĭescripción Paperback. The novelist's function is to keep a running tag on the progress of the culture and he's done it brilliantly. Ellis is showing older authors where the hands have come to on the clock * Vanity Fair * 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 * For its savagely coherent picture of a society lethally addicted to blandness, it should be judged by the highest standards - John Walsh * Sunday Times * Serious, clever and shatteringly effective * Sunday Times * American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel.

You'd think at least one of these witnesses would get suspicious or complain, but they don't - Bob Mack * Spin * The first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themes. Our killer nonchalantly takes his blood-splattered clothes to the dry cleaners and gives them attitude when they complain about the stains.

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