Bret Easton Ellis
2) The shards
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Pub. Date
c2023.
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"Seventeen-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 equaled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer...
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The price of fame is exposed in this account of Los Angeles' world of youth, privilege, and alienation-- a world governed by sex, drugs, and music. Graphic portrayal of the deadened lives of beautiful, burned-out teens, with their ostentatious parties, cocaine vials, needle tracks, prostitution and pornography, as well as the dazed indifference to it all.
4) Lunar Park
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A breathtaking hire-wire act that plays with several genres, including memoir, ghost story and domestic dramas, defying the expectation of all three... book jacket
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Pub. Date
[1991]
Description
In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films, released Spring 2000, starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In American...
7) Glamorama
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Pub. Date
1999.
Description
Action man Victor Ward, owner of a New York nightclub, is hired by a man to fly to London and find his missing daughter. The assignment leads Ward to an international terrorist ring, run by a fashion model.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle that will leave him no choice but to plumb the darkest recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal.
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Pub. Date
[1991]
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Description
In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films, released Spring 2000, starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In American...
10) Less than zero
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Julian is a boy with looks, charm, intelligence and a father who sets him up in the record business; he also has a drug habit. His best friend Clay wants to help and is willing to do almost anything for his friend, but Julian is going downhill so fast that he might take his girlfriend and Clay with him.
11) American psycho
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
12) American psycho
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A terrifying vision of a Wall Street yuppie who is also a psychotic killer who rapes, murders, and dismembers both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or purpose.
13) American Psycho
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
14) The informers
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Los Angeles, 1980s. Centers on an array of characters who represent both the top of the heap - a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster - and the very bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Connecting the intertwining strands are a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs and one another with total abandon. They don't realizing that they are dancing on...