Glamorama (94 page)

The stars are real.

The future is that mountain.

AMERICAN
PSYCHO

American Psycho
is set in a world (Manhattan) and an era (the eighties) recognizably our own. The wealthy elite grows wealthier, the poor are turned out onto the streets in droves, and anything seems possible. Even so, Bateman—the handsome, well-educated, wealthy young man who expresses his true self through torture and murder—prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

Fiction/0-679-73577-1

THE
INFORMERS

Dirk sees his best friend killed in a desert car wreck, but saves their shared joint before the ambulance arrives. Jamie is a clubland carnivore with a taste for human blood. Cheryl, a wannabe newscaster, cares more for appearances than for her future stepdaughter. As rendered by Ellis, their interactions compose a chilling descent into the abyss beneath L.A.’s pretty surfaces.

Fiction/0-679-74324-3

LESS
THAN
ZERO

Set in L.A. in the early 1980s, this mesmerizing novel is a powerful portrait of a lost generation. Clay comes home on break from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of absolute moral entropy, where the natives drive Porches, and snort mountains of cocaine. When Clay finds his childhood friend Julian careering into hustling and heroin, his holiday turns into a spiral of desperation.

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THE
RULES
OF
ATTRACTION

Set in a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan eighties,
The Rules of Attraction
is about three students with no plans for the future, or even the present, who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at Camden College and treats their sexual posturings and agonies with hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives.

Fiction/0-679-78148-X

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