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Das Ende des amerikanischen Familienromans Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie schreiben als Student einen Bestseller, doch Ihr Starruhm versinkt in einem See von Verunglimpfungen, Alkohol und Drogen. Stellen Sie sich dann vor, Sie bekommen eine zweite Chance - so wie der Romanheld Bret Easton Ellis in Lunar Park. Zunächst glaubt man, eine Autobiographie in Händen zu halten: Autor und Protagonist Bret Easton Ellis fasst sein bisheriges Leben zusammen, ...

Gerade 20 Jahre alt, schreibt 1984 ein amerikanischer Student namens Bret Easton Ellis die Abschlußarbeit für einen Creative-writing-Kurs. Der Schriftsteller Joe McGinnis, sein Lehrer, ist so begeistert, daß er das Manuskript einem angesehenen New Yorker Verlag schickt, wo es unter dem Titel Less Than Zero tatsächlich erscheint. Unter Null entwickelt sich zum Kultbuch. Die jungen Amerikaner finden sich wieder in B.E. Ellis¿ Geschichte von Cla...

»Eine literarische Markierung des ausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts.« Hubert Winkels Patrick Bateman sieht gut aus, ist gut erzogen und intelligent. Tagsüber sitzt er in seinem Büro in der Wall Street und vergrößert seinen Reichtum. Seine Nächte hingegen verbringt er auf unfassbare Weise. Er ist ein Serienmörder und lebt seinen ganz eigenen amerikanischen Traum. »American Psycho läuft drohend, grollend wie ein Unwetter an, und plötzlich schlägt de...

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 ...

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 a...

Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is the bestselling writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college. In the years that followed he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame, as well as dealing with the unexpected death of his abusive father. After a decade of decadence a chance for salvation arrives, the chance to reconnect with an actress he was once involve...

Downers Grove bei Chicago sieht aus wie ein ganz normaler und durchschnittlicher Vorort - aber Downers Grove hütet ein beängstigendes Geheimnis. Seit acht Jahren stirbt jedes Jahr ein High School Absolvent einen bizarren Tod - immer kurz vor den Abschlussfeiern. Und dieses Jahr hat Chrissie Swanson das schreckliche und paranoide Gefühl, diejenige zu sein, die sterben muss. Kann Chrissie den Fluch von Downers Grove besiegen - oder wird sie ster...

Downers Grove bei Chicago sieht aus wie ein ganz normaler und durchschnittlicher Vorort - aber Downers Grove hütet ein beängstigendes Geheimnis. Seit acht Jahren stirbt jedes Jahr ein High School Absolvent einen bizarren Tod - immer kurz vor den Abschlussfeiern. Und dieses Jahr hat Chrissie Swanson das schreckliche und paranoide Gefühl, diejenige zu sein, die sterben muss. Kann Chrissie den Fluch von Downers Grove besiegen - oder wird sie ster...

American Psycho' van Bret Easton Ellis is een van de belangrijkste Amerikaanse boeken van de afgelopen vijfentwintig jaar: het verontrustende verhaal van Patrick Bateman, een New Yorkse beurshandelaar. Hij bezoekt dure, trendy restaurants en brengt 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. American Psycho is een grimmige, verontru...

The modern classic, the basis of a Broadway musical, and major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale, Chloe Sevigny, Jared Leto, and Reese Witherspoon, and directed by Mary Harron.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, han...

In this seductive and chillingly nihilistic novel, Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose moral badlands he portrayed unforgettably in Less Than Zero. The time is the early eighties. The characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard over a car radio. They have sex with the same boys and girls and buy from the same d...

A genuine literary event. Bret's first novel, Less Than Zero, was a national best seller, and now, 25 years later, he follows those desperate teenagers into an even more deeply fraught middle age. A very contemporary version of The Day of the Locust, and a book only Bret could write.

From his first novel a " Less Than Zero a " published when he was still a college student a " to American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis has been a powerful and original presence in contemporary literature, whether giving voice to a previously inchoate generation or provoking a controversy that raged throughout the culture. Now he takes a quantum leap forward: an awesome reckoning of the American Century at endgame. In Glamorama, a young man in wh...

From his first novel a " Less Than Zero a " published when he was still a college student a " to American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis has been a powerful and original presence in contemporary literature, whether giving voice to a previously inchoate generation or provoking a controversy that raged throughout the culture. Now he takes a quantum leap forward: an awesome reckoning of the American Century at endgame. In Glamorama, a young man in wh...

In questo romanzo Ellis ha collocato la vicenda in un college della costa atlantica dove si studiano le materie umanistiche, e dove tre studenti finiscono intrappolati in un curioso triangolo: Lauren, che cambia materia di studio ogni volta che cambia ragazzo, Paul, che nasconde la sua bisessualità dietro una maschera di esasperato pragmatismo, e Sean, che ostenta spregiudicatezza e cinismo per troppo romanticismo.

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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 prefigur...

Der Zeitgeist hockt im Niemandsland Stars und Models, hippe Charaktere, grenzenlose Gewalt und anarchischer Sex, Designerdrogen und hämmernde Musik - alles, was seine Fans (und Kritiker) erwartet haben, steckt in Bret Easton Ellis' spektakulärem Roman Glamorama. Ein Horrortrip durch das glamouröse New York, durch die obszön glitzernde Welt von London und Paris. Victor Ward, Model und Nightlife-Profi, lebt in der modebesessenen und prominenzge...

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 prefigur...

From the bestselling author or Less Than Zero and American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England with no plans for the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturi...