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Nel 1981 Bret ha diciassette anni e frequenta l'ultimo anno alla Buckley, la scuola della gioventú dorata di Los Angeles: feste in piscina, amori promiscui, Bmw, coca, vodka e succo di pompelmo, nell'autoradio cassette piene di Ultravox, Blondie e Duran Duran. Un mondo falso e perfetto, ma tutto sommato piacevole, di certo eccitante. Almeno finché in classe non arriva uno studente nuovo: «se la primavera e l'estate del 1981 erano state il sogno, qualcosa di paradisiaco, allora il mese di settembre rappresentò la fine di quel sogno con l'arrivo di Robert Mallory».

Patrick Bateman is 26 and works on Wall Street. He is handsome, sophisticated, charming, and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. And he is taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare...

"Cos'è giusto? Se si vuole una cosa è giusto prendersela. Se si vuole fare una cosa è giusto farla". Sesso facile, cocaina, feste sempre più trasgressive, auto di lusso, rock a tutto volume: a Los Angeles i giovanissimi che frequentano l'ambiente patinato degli studios cinematografici hanno tutto e non desiderano più niente. In un mondo illuminato dai bagliori spettrali dei videoclip e svuotato di ogni sentimento, Clay, Blair, Daniel e Julian, biondi e abbronzati, esplorano le pieghe infernali del "paradiso" californiano in un crescendo di immoralità e devastazione interiore che presto sconfina nell'orrore.

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

He became a best-selling novelist while still in college, immediately famous and wealthy. He watched his insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box. He was lost in a haze of booze, drugs and vilification. Then he was given a second chance. This is the life of Bret Easton Ellis, the author and subject of this remarkable novel. Confounding one expectation after another, Lunar Park is equally hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking. It’s the most original novel of an extraordinary career - and best of all: it all happened, every word is true. 

The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn’t been and with people he doesn’t know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history, he’s living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. Now it’s time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind. 

Lauren, who changes the man in her bed even more often than she changes course, is dating Victor but sleeping with Sean. Sean - cool, ambivalent and deeply cynical - might be in love with Lauren, but he’s not going to let that stop him from bedding Paul. Paul, as shrewd as he is passionate, is Lauren’s ex-lover and the final point in this curious triangle. From the author of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis' The Rules of Attraction is a breathtaking tale of sex, expectation, desire and frustration.  

Los Angeles, 1981–17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends, even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equalled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with The Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence.

El sofisticado, inteligente y vanidoso Patrick Bateman trabaja en Wall Street, idolatra al joven magnate Donald Trump, cena en los restaurantes de moda de Nueva York y es capaz de distinguir un traje Armani a cincuenta metros de distancia. También le gusta violar, torturar, asesinar y desmembrar.

Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, Less than Zero - narrated by Clay, an 18-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas - is a fierce coming-of-age story, justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth, its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity and its author’s refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour.

Clay regresa a Los Ángeles durante las vacaciones de Navidad. En el aeropuerto lo espera su novia Blair, por la que siente una profundaindiferencia. Un escueto mensaje de su madre sobre la mesa de la cocina y la nueva criada lo aguardan en casa. Enseguida intentaponerse en contactocon Julian, su huidizo mejor amigo, que ha abandonado la universidad y coquetea con la heroína, pero no consigue encontrarlo.

Bret Easton Ellis’s debut, 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...

Avec son sourire carnassier et ses costumes chics, Patrick Bateman est l'incarnation du golden boy new-yorkais. Mais, à la nuit tombante, il laisse libre cours à sa démence. En bon serial killer, Patrick viole, torture et tue. Dans un monde lisse de tout sentiment, jusqu'où l'horreur peut-elle aller ?

En el Manhattan de los noventa, Victor Ward, un modelo con abdominales esculpidos y amistades influyentes, es visto y fotografiado en todas partes, incluso en lugares en los que nunca ha estado y con personas que ni siquiera conoce. En vísperas de la inauguración del club nocturno más cool en la historia de la ciudad de Nueva York, Victor es atraído, de manera gradual e imperceptible, hacia un espejo sombrío de la alta sociedad hasta sentirse atrapado y sin salvoconducto de regreso.

Las memorias del creador de American Psycho: después de una década regresa el autor más controvertido de los 90 con su libro más polémico.

Los Ángeles, 1981. A sus diecisiete años, Bret está a punto de empezar su último curso de secundaria en Buckley junto a su exclusivo y sofisticado grupo de amigos: Thom, Susan y Debbie, novia de Bret, experimentan con el sexo, el alcohol y las drogas mientras aprovechan los últimos días de verano. Pero este sueño paradisiaco se desmorona con la llegada de un nuevo alumno: Robert Mallory es brillante, guapo y carismático, pero algo en él no encaja, y nadie más que Bret parece darse cuenta de que ese algo podría estar relacionado con la aparición del Arrastrero.

Der siebzehnjährige Bret ist in der Oberstufe der exklusiven Buckley Prep School, als ein neuer Schüler auftaucht. Robert Mallory ist intelligent, gutaussehend und charismatisch und zieht Bret magisch an. Bret ist sich sicher, dass Robert ein düsteres Geheimnis hat, und kann dennoch nicht verhindern, dass Robert Teil seiner Freundesgruppe wird. Als der Trawler, ein Serienmörder, der Jugendliche auf bestialische Weise umbringt, immer näher an ihn und seine Clique heranrückt, gerät Bret zunehmend in eine Spirale aus Paranoia und Isolation.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial killer strikes across the...

Le retour de l'enfant terrible de la littérature américaine ! Que raconte "White", première expérience de "non-fiction" pour Bret Easton Ellis ? Tout et rien. "Tout dire sur rien et ne rien dire sur tout" pourrait être la formule impossible, à la Warhol, susceptible de condenser ce livre audio, d'en exprimer les contradictions, d'en camoufler les intentions. "White" est aussi ironique que "Moins que zéro", aussi glaçant qu'"American Psycho", aussi menaçant que "Glamorama", aussi labyrinthique que "Lunar Park", aussi implacable que "Suite(s) impériale(s)".

THE CONTROVERSIAL SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN 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...