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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.

Couverture: par Pierre Guglielmina

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.

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.

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.

With an introduction by Irvine Welsh A cult classic, adapted into an award-winning film starring Christian Bale. Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, reservations at every new restaurant in town and a line of girls around the block. He is also a psychopath. A man addicted to his superficial, perfect life, he pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare ...Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. A multimillion-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic, it is a violent black comedy about the darkest side of human nature.

Patrick Bateman e giovane, bello, ricco. Vive a Manhattan, lavora a Wall Street e con i colleghi Timothy, David, Patten e Craig, frequenta i locali piu alla moda, le palestre piu esclusive e le toilette dove gira la migliore cocaina della citta, discutendo di nuovi ristoranti, cameriere corpoduro ed eleganza maschile. Ma la sua vita e ricca di particolari piuttosto inquietanti e quando le tenebre scendono su New York, Patrick Bateman si trasforma in un torturatore omicida, freddo, metodico, spietato.

THE CONTROVERSIAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.Candid, fearless and provocative - the author of American Psycho on who he is and what he thinks is wrong with the world today.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.

Qu''avons-nous fait de notre liberté d''expression ? Pour son premier essai Bret Easton Ellis nous livre une analyse décapante de la société américaine et ressasse ses obsessions : dictature des reseaux sociaux, culture du "like", politiquement correct, victimisation erigee en art, hysterisation du debat public, surtout autour de Trump... Qu''il analyse le devenir du monde occidental, qu''il revienne sur une enfance a la derive, qu''il nous livre ses processus d''ecriture, ou la genese d''American Psycho, dont le heros, Patrick Bateman, vouait un culte a... Trump, l''enfant terrible des lettres americaines reste fidele a lui-meme : provocateur, intelligent, souvent negatif, mais toujours passionnant.

Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

Que raconte White, première expérience de " non-fiction " pour Bret Easton Ellis ? Tout et rien. " Tout dire sur rien et ne rien dire surtout " pourrait être la formule impossible, à la Warhol, susce

Nació en Los Angeles (USA) en 1964, aunque actualmente reside en Nueva York. Esta considerado como uno de los eternos niños de la literatura de fin de siglo XX. Estudia en Bennigton (Vermont) y sin cumplir los veinte años publica su primera novela 'Menos

This novel offers a satirical yet bleak vision of the modern world - a world devoted to conspicuous consumption and consumer-as-king culture - and highlights the feelings of futility and superficiali