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Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. His novels commonly share recurring characters.
Bret Easton Ellis is the author of six novels, including American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction, a collection of short stories, and a work of nonfiction.
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- March 7, 1964
- American Psycho.
- Less Than Zero.
- The Rules of Attraction.
- Lunar Park.
American Psycho is a horror novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first-person by Patrick Bateman, a wealthy, narcissistic, vain Manhattan investment banker who lives a double life as a serial killer.
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Mar 6, 1991 · It will no doubt deservingly be remembered as Bret Easton Ellis's masterpiece, his tour-de-force of sadist misanthropy. I effing HATED it. American Psycho is a brutal satire of the American upper middle class, set amongst the yuppies of New York during the boom era of the 1980's.
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Bret Easton Ellis is the author of six novels, a collection of short stories, and a work of nonfiction. His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He lives in Los Angeles and is the host of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast available on Patreon.
Ellis takes first-person narrative to an extreme, inserting himself (and a host of real characters from the publishing world) into the haunting story of a drugged-out famous writer living in the suburbs trying to reconnect with his wife and son and reconcile his damaged past.
