Bret Easton Ellis is een Amerikaanse auteur wiens werk thema's als moraliteit en nihilisme behandelt via zijn personages. Zijn verhalen volgen vaak jonge, lege individuen die zich bewust zijn van hun verdorvenheid en ervoor kiezen daarin te genieten. Terugkerende personages en dystopische locaties, vaak gesitueerd in Los Angeles en New York, verbinden zijn romans. Ellis' schrijven verkent de donkerdere aspecten van de menselijke natuur met een onderscheidende en provocerende stijl.
American psycho is een grimmige, verontrustende zwarte komedie over de excessen van ongebreideld kapitalisme, over hebzucht en oppervlakkigheid. Patrick Bateman is een aantrekkelijke, intelligente jongeman die een vermogen verdient op Wallstreet. Overdag bezoekt hij dure, trendy restaurants en brengt hij zijn lichaam in perfecte conditie in de sportschool. 's Nachts maakt hij zich schuldig aan misdaden die zo gruwelijk zijn dat ze ons verstand te boven gaan.
Deze caleidoscopische tweede roman van Bret Easton Ellis is gesitueerd op het bohémiene Camden College, en verhaalt over drie studenten zonder plan voor de toekomst, die verstrikt raken in een curieuze, romantische driehoeksverhouding.
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."
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.
"Imagine becoming a best-selling novelist, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, while after American Psycho your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze, and drugs." "Then imagine having a second chance ten years later, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given, with a wife, children, and suburban sobriety - only to watch this new life shatter beyond recognition in a matter of days. At a fateful Halloween party he glimpses a disturbing (fictional) character driving a car identical to his late father's, his stepdaughter's doll violently "malfunctions," and their house undergoes bizarre transformations both within and without. Connecting these aberrations to graver events - a series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his son's age - Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace event as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania." "Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting horror, both psychological and supernatural, toward a resolution - about love and loss, fathers and sons."--BOOK JACKET.
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.
Set in Los Angeles, in the recent past. The birthplace and graveyard of American myths and dreams, the city harbours a group of people trapped between the beauty of their surroundings and their own moral impoverishment. This novel is a chronicle of their voices.
Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle that will leave him no choice but to plumb the darkest recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal.
This book offers a narrative that intertwines genders, generations, and identities, featuring characters in LA who share a profound connection through their collective experience of soul-crushing suffering.
In deze roman worden de artikelen verzameld die de inspiratie vormden voor de bekroonde televisieserie Seks en de Stad. Carrie is de belichaming van de problematische vrouw die wanhopig naar liefde zoekt op de verkeerde plekken en die de avonturen vertelt van vier vriendinnen. Allen hebben een liberaal karakter en schromen niet om over seks te praten, elk op hun eigen manier. Samantha, de veertiger en filmproducent, is enigszins verslaafd aan seks en kent de vluchtige aard van schoonheid en jeugd; Charlotte is een romantica die nog steeds in de liefde gelooft; Miranda probeert de mannenwereld te begrijpen, en Carrie is misschien de meest normale van allemaal. We vergeten niet de mannen die alleen met perfecte en neurotische modellen naar bed gaan, of de fietsfanaten die weigeren zich als volwassenen te gedragen. Kortom, een kroniek van het echte leven en de avonturen die zich kunnen voordoen op een gewone dag in een grote stad, soms hilarisch, soms angstaanjagend... maar altijd fascinerend.
Der Band versammelt zehn der stärksten Kurzgeschichten des 'King of the Hard-Mouth-Poet', darunter 'Die große Zen-Hochzeit' und 'Hundekuchen in der Suppe'.
