Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare - this work is a black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.
Focuses on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College, a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s. This work treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the centre of their lives.
Clay comes home to LA for Christmas vacation and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and moral entropy. His holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs. This is a novel about the casual nihilism that comes with youth and money.
Victor Ward, a model with all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn't been and with people he doesn't know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history, he's living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.
Imagine becoming a bestselling novelist while still in college, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, then seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, even as your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze and drugs.
Presents a narrative that blurs genders, generations and identities. This book features characters that are connected in the only way people can be in LA - suffering from nothing less than the death of the soul.
Dirk sees his best friend killed in a desert car wreck, then rifles through his pockets for a last joint before the ambulance comes. Jamie is a clubland carnivore with a taste for human blood. All the characters are connected in the only way people can be in LA - suffering from nothing less than the death of the soul.
Patrick Bateman is Harvard-educated and intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. His nights he spends in ways we cannot begin to fathom - doing impermissible things to women. He is living his own American Dream .
A novel that confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting psychological and supernatural horror toward an astonishing resolution - about love and loss, fathers and sons.