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Mostly the book shows the american, materialistic shallowness in the 90s. The novelists function is to keep a running tag on the progress of culture and hes done it brilliantly washington post the first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and dostoyevskian themes. Apr 01, 2011 american psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel. The book creates a dissonance from real life and the actual plot that leaves the reader questioning if our. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. American psycho is a psychological thriller and satirical novel by bret easton ellis. Patrick bateman is twentysix and works on wall street. Reading the novel, i often wondered whether a bateman is making the whole thing up in terms of what he has done, in order to escape the life that he lead b that the other characters, such as courtney and evelyn, are worse that bateman because of their. Bret easton ellis is also the author of less than zero, the rules of attraction, american psycho, the informers, glamorama, and lunar park, and his work has been translated into twentyseven languages.
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