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American Psycho

American Psycho

Author(s): Bret Easton Ellis

Location(s): New York City (NYC)

Genre(s): Horror

Era(s): 1980s

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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.

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The first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themes…. is showing older authors where the hands come to on the clock.” -Norman Mailer, Vanity Fair

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