American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis and Mariano Antolín Rato
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American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan investment banker. Alison Kelly of The Observer notes that while "some countries [deem it] so potentially disturbing that it can only be sold shrink-wrapped", "critics rave about it" and "academics revel in its transgressive and postmodern qualities".
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Gothic & Horror, Literary Fiction, capitalism, postmodernism, id, schizophrenia, consumerism, stream of consciousness, cocaine, pop music, unreliable narrators, vanity, sadism, rape, torture, mutilation, cannibalism, SWAT teams, necrophilia, investment bankers, psychological fiction, horror tales, Fiction, Rapists, Serial murderers in fiction, Women in fiction, Crimes against Women, Rapists in fiction, Novela estadounidense, Serial murderers, Psychopaths, Cuentos de terror, Psychopaths in fiction, Women, Crimes against, Violence, Serial murders, Fiction, psychological, Bateman, pat (fictitious character), fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Samfundssatire, Sex, Vold, Psykologisk thriller, Yuppier, Women--crimes against, Women--crimes against--fiction, Serial murderers--fiction, Psychopaths--fiction, Rapists--fiction, Ps3555.l5937 a8 1991, 813/.54People
Patrick Bateman, Evelyn Richards, Timothy Price, Paul Owen, Jean, Luis Carruthers, Courtney Lawrence, Craig McDermott, David Van Patten, Christie, Elizabeth, Marcus Halberstam, Donald Kimball, Alison Poole, Sean Bateman, Paul Denton, Christopher Armstrong, Bethany, Stash, Vanden, AlPlaces
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.), Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), Manhattan, Wall Street, New York, LondonTimes
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American Psycho
2000, Picador
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in English
- Movie Tie-In Edition (3)
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American Psycho: A Novel
1991-03, Vintage Books
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"ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Miserables on its side blocking his view, but Price who is with Pierce & Pierce and twenty-six doesn't seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn up the radio, "Be My Baby" on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so."
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