Bret Easton Ellis è un autore americano la cui opera affronta temi di moralità e nichilismo attraverso i suoi personaggi. Le sue narrazioni seguono spesso individui giovani e vacui che sono consapevoli della loro depravazione e scelgono di crogiolarsi in essa. Personaggi ricorrenti e ambientazioni distopiche, frequentemente ambientate a Los Angeles e New York, collegano i suoi romanzi. La scrittura di Ellis esplora gli aspetti più oscuri della natura umana con uno stile distintivo e provocatorio.
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.
Un po' soap opera, un po' studio sociologico, un po' scorpacciata di gossip e un po' corso accelerato di seduzione. La rubrica del "New York Observer" Sex and the City, che ha reso Candace Bushnell una star, è diventata un vero e proprio cult ispirando un serial tv di successo in tutto il mondo, un film e anche un libro. Un racconto a puntate sulla società degli anni Novanta che descrive con spudorata sincerità la vita sessuale, i vizi, i sentimenti maligni e sotterranei della high society americana avvalendosi delle "ricerche sul campo" della sua autrice. Per scrivere i suoi pezzi, infatti, la Bushnell ha condotto indagini sulle abitudini sessuali delle donne sposate, ha partecipato ai party più ambiti e si è inserita con l'abilità di una 007 in gonnella (firmata) negli ambienti più esclusivi. Il risultato è un resoconto degli aspetti più segreti dello scintillante jet set che uno scrittore del calibro di Bret Easton Ellis ha definito "irresistibile e al tempo stesso inquietante".
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.
Clay è tornato in città - ancora a Los Angeles, ancora durante le vacanze di Natale - ma dai tempi di Meno di zero sono passati venticinque anni. Oggi Clay è uno sceneggiatore che deve mettere insieme il cast per il suo nuovo film: ma quando incontrerà i vecchi amici (Blair, Trent, Julian...), sempre più annoiati, amorali e decadenti, si inoltrerà in un inferno in cui è impossibile distinguere la vittima dal carnefice. Un noir chandleriano per un Ellis mai così ironico, disincantato e disperato.
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.
Lauren, who changes her course subject every time she changes her sleeping partner, is the centre of a curious love triangle which involves the shrewd and passionate bisexual Paul, and Sean whose ambivalence and cynicism conceal - even from himself - his own romantic yearnings. Through each of the character ́s voices Ellis presents a kaleidoscopic view of clashing expectations and frustrations, of the dreams and tumultuous desires of youth. ''The rules of attraction'' paints a poignant and sometimes hilarious picture of the couplings and capitulations, the dramas and downfalls of american college life in the 1980s.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a chilling tale that combines reality, memoir, and fantasy to create a fascinating portrait of this most controversial writer but also a deeply moving novel about love and loss, parents and children, and ultimately forgiveness. “John Cheever writes The Shining.” —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is the bestselling writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college. In the years that followed he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame, as well as dealing with the unexpected death of his abusive father. After a decade of decadence a chance for salvation arrives; the chance to reconnect with an actress he was once involved with, and their son. But almost immediately his new life is threatened by a freak sequence of events and a bizarre series of murders that all seem to connect to Ellis’s past. His attempts to save his new world from his own demons makes Lunar Park Ellis’s most suspenseful novel. Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards!
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.
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."
Der Band enthält zehn herausragende Kurzgeschichten des 'King of the Hard-Mouth-Poet', darunter 'Die große Zen-Hochzeit' und 'Hundekuchen in der Suppe'.
