Bret Easton Ellis, Author . Knopf $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-41291-2
Having ridden to fame as the laureate of Reagan-era excesses, Ellis serves up a self-eviscerating apologia for all the awful things (wanton drug use, reckless promiscuity, serial murder) he worked so hard to glamorize. Narrated faux memoir style by...
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Bret Easton Ellis, Author . Knopf $25 (192p) ISBN 978-0-307-26610-1
Ellis explores what disillusioned youth looks like 25 years later in this brutal sequel to Less Than Zero
. Clay, now a screenwriter, returns at Christmas to an L.A. that looks and operates much as it did 25 years ago. Trent is now a producer and...
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Bret Easton Ellis, Author Penguin Books $11.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-008894-6
Written when the author was 20, this first novel tells the story of Clay, a New Hampshire college student who returns home to Los Angeles for Christmas vacation. Vignettes show Clay and his friends aimlessly traveling from party to party, doing...
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Bret Easton Ellis, Author Simon & Schuster $17.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-62234-3
This tale of privileged college students at their self- absorbed and childish worst is the very book that countless students have dreamed of writing at their most self-absorbed and childish moments. With one bestseller to his credit, Less Than Zero...
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Bret Easton Ellis, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (482p) ISBN 978-0-375-40412-2
The evil twin of fellow brat-packer Jay McInerney's Model Behavior, Ellis's (The Informers) bad trip through glitterary New York has everything his fans (and critics) have come to expect: graphic sex, designer drugs, rock 'n' roll allusions,...
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Bret Easton Ellis, Author, Christian Rummel, Read by, Therese Plummer, Read by , read by Christian Rummel and Therese Plummer. Brilliance $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-9583-6
Ellis serves up his usual blend of phony personalities, 1980s conspicuous consumption, joyless sex and abundant drug use in this 1994 novel about making it in L.A. The narration is split between Christian Rummel and Therese Plummer, who take...
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Bret Easton Ellis, Author, Gary Fisketjon, Editor Knopf Publishing Group $22 (225p) ISBN 978-0-679-43587-7
This tedious successor to American Psycho , a patchwork of interrelated vignettes about a set of filthy rich L.A. families in the early 1980s, weds Ellis's over-the-top if one-dimensional satirical style to the sensational hedonism characteristic of
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Bret Easton Ellis, Author, James Van Der Beek, Read by , read by James Van Der Beek. Random House Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-2178-2
Patrick Bateman, the sociopath of American Psycho
, is back, or at least Bret Easton Ellis thinks so. That's Bret Easton Ellis the character, not Bret Easton Ellis the author, except the character is also the author of American Psycho
. The...
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Bret Easton Ellis. Knopf, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-65630-2
Political correctness is destroying America’s mind and soul, according to this contentious manifesto. Novelist, screenwriter, and podcaster Ellis, whose American Psycho sparked a furor with its grisly rapes and murders, lambastes “the threatening...
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Bret Easton Ellis. Knopf, $30 (608p) ISBN 978-0-593-53560-8
Bret Easton Ellis, the narrator of this ponderous work of autofiction set in 1980s Los Angeles from bestseller Ellis, is a private school senior with literary ambitions who’s fascinated by books and movies; he has already started writing his first...
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