An edition of American Psycho (1991)

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Cover of: American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, Mariano Antolín Rato, Bret Easton Ellis
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An edition of American Psycho (1991)

American Psycho

printing (12)

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.9 (92 ratings) ·
  • 1,575 Want to read
  • 78 Currently reading
  • 112 Have read

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 — American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.
--back cover

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Picador
Language
English
Pages
384

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Subjects

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/.54

People

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, Al

Places

Wall Street (New York, N.Y.), Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), Manhattan, Wall Street, New York, London

Times

1980s

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Published in
London
Copyright Date
1991

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
384p.
Number of pages
384

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL30618514M
ISBN 10
0330544535
ISBN 13
9780330544535
OCLC/WorldCat
900475974
Goodreads
59245995

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1812933W

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First Sentence

"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."

Work Description

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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