Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis

Lunar Park is the latest novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho. I mention this because Ellis has been defined by American Psycho since it was published in 1991 - suffering more criticism than most authors - because of the incredibly graphic and gratuitous descriptions of torture and sexual mutilation. I was one of those critics that felt so physically sick on reading American Psycho that I wrote to express my bewilderment at his choice of narrator (the merciless Patrick Bateman) and to him to ask why he felt the need to share such horrific imagery with the rest of us. I waited and waited - in fact sixteen long years ...  Read the complete review