- Gothic & Horror, Literary Fiction, capitalism, postmodernism
American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan investment banker. Alison Kelly of The Observer notes that while "some countries [deem it] so potentially disturbing that it can only be sold shrink-wrapped", "critics rave about it" and "academics revel in its transgressive and postmodern qualities".
- Graphic violence
- Body horror
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Bleak, contemporary, character-led and prestige.
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 477
- Publisher
- Ithaki, 10/18, PICADOR
- Editions
- 46
- Language
- Spanish, French, Italian, German
- ISBN
- 9782221245972
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“ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Miserables on its side blocking his view, but Price who is with Pierce & Pierce and twenty-six doesn't seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn up the radio, "Be My Baby" on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so.”
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