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Giovani ricchi e viziati, genitori mai cresciuti, rockstar invasate, star effimere e vacue, arriviste piene di "buona volonta": come in una sfilata di mostri, sotto le luci frastornanti di una realta televisionata, gli anni Ottanta mostrano in questi racconti il loro lato peggiore, quello di un benessere improvviso che si annega nel nichilismo, di infiniti piaceri che si succedono in vite sottovuoto.

Patrick Bateman lives his life on Wall Street and the best parts of New York City. He is handsome, well dressed and well educated. He has a lot of friends and all the dates any man could want. He als

Bret Ellis's first novel, Less Than Zero, is one of the signal novels of the last thirty years, and he now follows those infamous teenagers into an even more desperate middle age. Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle. Blair, his former girlfriend, is married to Trent, a powerful manager who's still a bisexual philanderer, and their Beverly Hills parties attract various levels of fame and fortune.

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Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

Menos que cero cuenta la historia de un joven estudiante que regresa a su casa de Los Angeles para pasar las vacaciones y eencuentra a su grupo de amigos, punkis dorados, hijos de magnates de Hollywood. FIestas interminables, clubs de rock, rayas de coca y hamburguesas... y el submundo de la pornografia, las snuff movies y la prostitucion masculina. Ellis registra la vertiginosa espiral por la que se desliza este grupo de adolescentes que experimentan con el sexo, las drogas y la desolacion

With an introduction by Irvine Welsh A cult classic, adapted into an award-winning film starring Christian Bale. Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, reservations at every new restaurant in town and a line of girls around the block. He is also a psychopath. A man addicted to his superficial, perfect life, he pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare ...Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. A multimillion-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic, it is a violent black comedy about the darkest side of human nature.

Patrick Bateman e giovane, bello, ricco. Vive a Manhattan, lavora a Wall Street e con i colleghi Timothy, David, Patten e Craig, frequenta i locali piu alla moda, le palestre piu esclusive e le toilette dove gira la migliore cocaina della citta, discutendo di nuovi ristoranti, cameriere corpoduro ed eleganza maschile. Ma la sua vita e ricca di particolari piuttosto inquietanti e quando le tenebre scendono su New York, Patrick Bateman si trasforma in un torturatore omicida, freddo, metodico, spietato.

Candid, fearless and provocative - the author of American Psycho on who he is and what he thinks is wrong with the world today. Bret Easton Ellis is most famous for his era-defining novel American Psycho and its terrifying anti-hero, Patrick Bateman. With that book, and many times since, Ellis proved himself to be one of the world's most fearless and clear-sighted observers of society - the glittering surface and the darkness beneath. In White, his first work of non-fiction, Ellis offers a wide-ranging exploration of what the hell is going on right now. He tells personal stories from his own life. He writes with razor-sharp precision about the music, movies, books and TV he loves and hates. He examines the ways our culture, politics and relationships have changed over the last four decades. He talks about social media, Hollywood celebrities and Donald Trump. Ellis considers conflicting positions without flinching and adheres to no status quo. His forthright views are powered by a fervent belief in artistic freedom and freedom of speech. Candid, funny, entertaining and blisteringly honest, he offers opinions that are impossible to ignore and certain to provoke. What he values above all is the truth. `The culture at large seemed to encourage discourse,' he writes, `but what it really wanted to do was shut down the individual.' Bret Easton Ellis will not be shut down

This novel offers a satirical yet bleak vision of the modern world - a world devoted to conspicuous consumption and consumer-as-king culture - and highlights the feelings of futility and superficiali

THE CONTROVERSIAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.Candid, fearless and provocative - the author of American Psycho on who he is and what he thinks is wrong with the world today.Bret Easton Ellis is most famous for his era-defining novel American Psycho and its terrifying anti-hero, Patrick Bateman. With that book, and many times since, Ellis proved himself to be one of the world''s most fearless and clear-sighted observers of society - the glittering surface and the darkness beneath.In White, his first work of non-fiction, Ellis offers a wide-ranging exploration of what the hell is going on right now. He tells personal stories from his own life. He writes with razor-sharp precision about the music, movies, books and TV he loves and hates. He examines the ways our culture, politics and relationships have changed over the last four decades. He talks about social media, Hollywood celebrities and Donald Trump.Ellis considers conflicting positions without flinching and adheres to no status quo. His forthright views are powered by a fervent belief in artistic freedom and freedom of speech. Candid, funny, entertaining and blisteringly honest, he offers opinions that are impossible to ignore and certain to provoke.What he values above all is the truth. ''The culture at large seemed to encourage discourse,'' he writes, ''but what it really wanted to do was shut down the individual.'' Bret Easton Ellis will not be shut down.

Qu''avons-nous fait de notre liberté d''expression ? Pour son premier essai Bret Easton Ellis nous livre une analyse décapante de la société américaine et ressasse ses obsessions : dictature des reseaux sociaux, culture du "like", politiquement correct, victimisation erigee en art, hysterisation du debat public, surtout autour de Trump... Qu''il analyse le devenir du monde occidental, qu''il revienne sur une enfance a la derive, qu''il nous livre ses processus d''ecriture, ou la genese d''American Psycho, dont le heros, Patrick Bateman, vouait un culte a... Trump, l''enfant terrible des lettres americaines reste fidele a lui-meme : provocateur, intelligent, souvent negatif, mais toujours passionnant.

Whats become of Less Than Zeros over-privileged teenagers? Bret Easton Elliss sequel Imperial Bedrooms takes us back to LA as they face an even greater period of disaffection: their own middle age.

From the author of American Psycho, The Informers is an incisive collection of stories that sees Bret Easton Ellis return to the moral badlands of 1980s Los Angeles.