American PsychoThe modern classic, the basis of a Broadway musical, and major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale, Chloe Sevigny, Jared Leto, and Reese Witherspoon, and directed by Mary Harron. 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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All 10 reviews »Amazing book. Beautifully controlled masterpiece. Not boring at all. Don't read this if you want a conventional serial killer story. This is more of a satirical statement and a very well-written window into the mind of an insane wall-street yuppie.
Contents
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Section 2 | 63 |
Section 3 | 70 |
Section 4 | 81 |
Section 5 | 114 |
Section 6 | 126 |
Section 7 | 133 |
Section 8 | 137 |
Section 16 | 256 |
Section 17 | 278 |
Section 18 | 306 |
Section 19 | 326 |
Section 20 | 330 |
Section 21 | 346 |
Section 22 | 347 |
Section 23 | 360 |
Section 9 | 142 |
Section 10 | 153 |
Section 11 | 161 |
Section 12 | 180 |
Section 13 | 224 |
Section 14 | 230 |
Section 15 | 247 |
Section 24 | 362 |
Section 25 | 371 |
Section 26 | 382 |
Section 27 | 385 |
Section 28 | 401 |
Section 29 | 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.
Page ix - Underground," this person introduces himself, his views, and, as it were, tries to explain the reasons why he appeared and was bound to appear in our midst.
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| Title | American Psycho Vintage Contemporaries |
| Author | Bret Easton Ellis |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0307756432, 9780307756435 |
| Length | 416 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Horror Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire |
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