Bret Easton Ellis

La novela más infame de Bret Easton Ellis: un clásico contemporáneo que se ha convertido en símbolo de una generación. «La vida era como un lienzo en blanco, un cliché, un culebrón. Me sentía letal,

La novela más infame de Bret Easton Ellis: un clásico contemporáneo que se ha convertido en símbolo de una generación. «La vida era como un lienzo en blanco, un cliché, un culebrón. Me sentía letal,

Tras trece años de silencio literario, regresa el mejor Bret Easton Ellis con una novela monumental. «Un juego de espejos brillante, elegante y demoníaco que te mantiene en vilo hasta el final. El me

Tras trece años de silencio literario,regresa el mejor Bret Easton Ellis con una novela monumental.«Un juego de espejos brillante, elegante y demoníaco que te mantiene en vilo hasta el final. El mejo

«Brillante. [...] Ellis recrea la época mejor que Tom Wolfe o Don DeLillo. [...] Se está convirtiendo en uno de los escritores americanos de mayor genialidad». GQ En el Manhattan de los noventa, Vi

Patrick Bateman e giovane, bello, ricco. Vive a Manhattan, lavora a WallStreet e con i colleghi Timothy, David, Patten e Craig, frequenta i locali piualla moda, le palestre piu esclusive e le toilette dove gira la migliorecocaina della citta, discutendo di nuovi ristoranti, cameriere corpoduro edeleganza maschile. Ma la sua vita e ricca di particolari piuttosto inquietantie quando le tenebre scendono su New York, Patrick Bateman si trasforma in untorturatore omicida, freddo, metodico, spietato.

The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasnt been and with people he doesnt know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history, hes living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. Now its time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.

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.Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs who exists in magazines and gossip columns and whose life resembles an ultra-hip movie, is living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. And then it''s time to move on to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.

Incisive, controversial and startlingly funny, The Rules of Attraction examines a group of affluent students at a small, self-consciously bohemian, liberal-arts college on America’s East Coast.

Bret Easton Ellis delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to "Less Than Zero", one of the most singular novels of the last thirty years. Returning to Los Angeles from New York, Clay, now a successful screenwriter, is casting his new movie. Soon he is running with his old circle of friends through L.A.'s seedy side. His ex-girlfriend, Blair is married to Trent, a bisexual philanderer and influential manager. Then there's Julian, a recovering addict, and Rip, a former dealer. Then when Clay meets a gorgeous young actress who will stop at nothing to be in his movie, his own dark past begins to shine through, and he has no choice but to dive into the recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal.

In this seductive and chillingly nihilistic novel, Bret Easton Ellis, bestselling author of "American Psycho, "returns to Los Angeles, the city whose moral badlands he first surveyed in "Less Than Zero." His characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. They have sex with the same boys and girls and buy their drugs from the same dealers. And their interactions delineate a chilling, fascinating, and outrageous descent into the abyss beneath the gorgeous surfaces of L.A.

La primera novela de Bret Easton Ellis,Menos que cero, narra las andanzas de un grupo de adolescentes a la deriva. Narrado con el estilo descarnado y glacial que le hizo célebre,Suites imperiales retoma las vidas de aquellos autodestructivos adolescentes veinticinco años despues.Clay, ahora guionista de exito, regresa a Los Angeles para participar en el casting de su nueva pelicula.En una fiesta de productores se reencuentra con su ex, Blair, y su marido, Trent, un poderoso magnate que continua siendo un casanova. Esa misma noche conoce a Rain, una actriz despampanante y sin talento pero decidida a conseguir el papel de su vida. Desde ese instante Clay comienza a recibir mensajes anonimos, un jeep azul lo sigue a todas partes y el rumor sobre el asesinato de un productor se extiende en su circulo de amistades. Su amigo de la adolescencia, Julian -recuperado de su adiccion a la heroina y al frente de un servicio de prostitucion-, y su antiguo camello, Rip -mas siniestro que nunca debidoa una larga lista de operaciones de estetica que lo han desfigurado hasta hacerlo irreconocible- reaparecen entonces en su vida.Reseña:Los fans de Bret Easton Ellis se deleitaran con los personajes y con la facilidad del autor para manipular sus destinos. Aunque la relacion con Menos que cero es sublime,Suites imperiales funciona a la perfeccion leido independientemente.Publishers Weekly

"Lo scrittore maledetto Bret Easton Ellis decide di mettere la testa a posto e di sposare un''attrice famosa, una ex dalla quale ha avuto un figlio non riconosciuto. La famiglia (c''e anche una bambina, figlia di lei) va ad abitare in un elegante sobborgo del New England e Bret insegna scrittura creativa al college. Sembrerebbe una vita normale, finche l''uomo non scopre l''orrore della normalita, dell''""American way of life"": psicofarmaci per bambini, griffe, snobismi, nevrosi, adulteri e rivalita. Ma anche lapidi che spuntano nel giardino, cani che impazziscono, giocattoli che si animano... Ellis presenta un romanzo sotto forma di autobiografia semi-immaginaria, venata di caustica ironia. "

Giovani ricchi e viziati, genitori mai cresciuti, rockstar invasate, star effimere e vacue, arriviste piene di "buona volonta": come in una sfilata di mostri, sotto le luci frastornanti di una realta televisionata, gli anni Ottanta mostrano in questi racconti il loro lato peggiore, quello di un benessere improvviso che si annega nel nichilismo, di infiniti piaceri che si succedono in vite sottovuoto.

Patrick Bateman lives his life on Wall Street and the best parts of New York City. He is handsome, well dressed and well educated. He has a lot of friends and all the dates any man could want. He als

Bret Ellis's first novel, Less Than Zero, is one of the signal novels of the last thirty years, and he now follows those infamous teenagers into an even more desperate middle age. 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. Blair, his former girlfriend, is married to Trent, a powerful manager who's still a bisexual philanderer, and their Beverly Hills parties attract various levels of fame and fortune.