02089cam a2200349 4500 1261843450 TxAuBib 900816s1991||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 90010247 9780307278630 0307278638 9780679735779 pbk. 0679735771 pbk. (OCoLC)578 DLC eng DLC BAKER XY4 YDXCP BTCTA EDK DEBBG O2H BDX OCLCO M6U OTC TxAuBib Ellis, Bret Easton. American psycho : a novel / by Bret Easton Ellis. 1st ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1991. 399 p. ; 21 cm. Vintage contemporaries. 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 Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day, while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront. Psychopaths Fiction. Rapists Fiction. Serial murderers Fiction. Women Crimes against Fiction. Manhattan (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Wall Street (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Horror tales. Psychological fiction. Vintage contemporaries.