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Bret Easton Ellis
A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial…
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A disturbing portrayal of privileged and immoral LA teenagers, Less Than Zero is a cult classic.
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A startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future - or even the present - who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle.
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The author of American Psycho rips into his most frightening subject yet: himself.
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The Sunday Times Bestseller
'A full-spectrum triumph' - Guardian
A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged…
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What’s become of Less Than Zero’s over-privileged teenagers? Bret Easton Ellis’s sequel Imperial Bedrooms takes us back to LA as they face an even greater period of disaffection: their own…
The number one international bestseller from the author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero. Glamorama is an ambitious and gripping novel which dissects celebrity obsessed culture.
Combining personal reflection and social observation, White is the first work of nonfiction work from Bret Easton Ellis, the bestselling author of American Psycho.
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 sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer…
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"A story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting…
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A story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting…
An international bestseller and true modern classic.
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of…
Lina Wolff
Award-winning Barcelona novel with Bolano-esque humour: with women, men, lovers, loners, Marilyn (a cat) and Bret Easton Ellis (a dog).
G. Colby
This book reads the whole of Bret Easton Ellis’s oeuvre to date from Less Than Zero to Imperial Bedrooms and asks to what extent Ellis’s novels can be read as…
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Annette Schimmelpfennig
Riddled with intertextual references and notorious for their explicit portrayal of sex, drugs, and the occasional rock ‘n’ roll, the novels of Bret Easton Ellis offer themselves for deconstruction to…
Julian Murphet
A reader’s guide to one of the most popular novels of the past ten years. Includes a biography of the novelist, analysis of the novel, reviews of the novel, the…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Bret Easton Ellis’s Less than Zero, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Offers a collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis, examining the novels of his mature period: American Psycho (1991) , Glamorama (1999) , and Lunar Park…
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A collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis, examining the novels of his mature period: American Psycho (1991), Glamorama (1999), and Lunar Park (2005). It also…
Combining personal reflection and social observation, Bret Easton Ellis’s first work of nonfiction is an incendiary polemic about this young century’s failings, a definition and defence of what ‘freedom of…
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Bret Easton Ellis’s first work of non-fiction is an incendiary polemic about what is going on in the world right now - guaranteed to entertain, surprise and provoke.
A young man in celebrity-obsessed Manhattan is gradually, imperceptibly drawn into a shadowy looking-glass of that society and then finds himself trapped on the other side, in a much darker…
In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything–including murder.
With irony and compassion, the author of Less Than Zero chronicles the sexual affairs–heterosexual, homosexual, and orgiastic–of a group of students at a self-consciously bohemian New England college. Reprint. 15,000…
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…
Dr Sonia Baelo-Allue
Offers an analysis of Bret Easton Ellis’ works, focusing on their reception, popular culture influences, and literary style. This book contains a study of the reception of each novel, the…
Johannes Malkmes
Die vorliegende Studie stellt eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der amerikanischen Konsumkultur des 20. Jahrhunderts dar. Dabei wird ein Schwerpunkt auf die historische Entwicklung von der Standegesellschaft des spaten 18. und…
Annette Wagner
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral–Universiteat Hannover, Wintersemester 2005/2006).
