American Psycho

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Author: 
Brett Easton Ellis
Year: 
1991
Publisher: 
Vintage Books
Language: 
English
Publication Type: 
Print publication
License: 
All Rights reserved
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Tags: 
violencemurdersatirecapitalism
Description (in English): 

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 businessman. Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, he 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.

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