Make up your own mind! (American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis)

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Product:	American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Date:	13/07/00 (17 review reads)
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Patrick Bateman is 26, handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He works on Wall Street by day earning a fortune. At night he spends it in ways we cannot begin to understand. Patrick Bateman is also a psychopath.
Bret Easton Ellis's bitter and aversive second novel takes us on a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmares.American Psycho contains some of the most horrifying, repugnant, indeed misogynist scenes of torture and murder ever written (the monologue, however, remains aloof, cold and impartial throughout, whether describing drainpipes rammed into vaginas to allow rats access to feast inside, or the cut of a colleague's Armani suit, or the career of Whitney Houston), but they must be read in satirical context of the book as a whole: after all, the horror does not lie in the novel itself, but in the society it reflects.

The book is neither pleasure reading nor pornography. Ellis is writing from the deepest, purest of motives. Not only is American Psycho a bleak, pitch-black comedy and disturbing portrait of a madman but also a serious work that exposes the blatant excesses of American vanity 'culture', 80's consumerism and Reaganism.

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