American PsychoINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. "A seminal book.” —The Washington Post One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years 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. “A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing.... An important book.” —Katherine Dunn, bestselling author of Geek Love Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s latest novel, The Shards! |
Contents
Section 1 | 70 |
Section 2 | 133 |
Section 3 | 137 |
Section 4 | 142 |
Section 5 | 153 |
Section 6 | 161 |
Section 7 | 326 |
Section 8 | 330 |
Section 9 | 347 |
Section 10 | 371 |
Section 11 | 385 |
Section 12 | 401 |
Section 13 | 403 |
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Page ix - Nevertheless, such persons as the composer of these Notes not only exist in our society, but indeed must exist, considering the circumstances under which our society has generally been formed.
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