Bücher von Bret Easton Ellis

A cult classic, adapted into a film starring Christian Bale. Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, reservations at every new restaurant in town and a line of girls around the block. He is also a psychopath. A man addicted to his superficial, perfect life, he pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare . . . With an introduction by Irvine Welsh, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. A multimillion-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic, it is a violent black comedy about the darkest side of human nature.

Bret Easton Ellis's first work of non-fiction is an incendiary polemic about what is going on in the world right now -guaranteed to entertain, surprise and provoke.

Incisive, controversial and startlingly funny, The Rules of Attraction examines a group of affluent students at a small, self-consciously bohemian, liberal-arts college on America's East Coast. Lauren, who changes the man in her bed even more often than she changes course, is dating Victor but sleeping with Sean. Sean - cool, ambivalent and deeply cynical - might be in love with Lauren, but he's not going to let that stop him from bedding Paul. Paul, as shrewd as he is passionate, is Lauren's ex-lover and the final point in this curious triangle. From the author of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis's The Rules of Attraction is a breathtaking tale of sex, expectation, desire and frustration.

In Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis shows us a shadowy looking-glass world, the juncture where fame and fashion, terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives.The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn't been and with people he doesn't know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history, he's living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. Now it's time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind . . .

Auch im Nachfolgebuch zu seinem international erfolgreichen und umstrittenen Roman American Psycho bestätigt Ellis einmal mehr seine herausragende Stellung als literarischer Chronist der Gegenwart. In zwölf miteinander verwobenen Geschichten zeichnet der Autor das Bild einer sanften Apokalypse im Los Angeles der 80er Jahre: Braungebrannte Teenagerstudenten kreuzen mit ihren Porsches durch die Straßen zwischen Bel Air und Malibu Beach, immer auf der Suche nach dem ultimativen Kick, der ihrem kreditkartengesicherten Leben etwas Authentizität verleiht. Ob Drogendealer oder höhere Tochter, alle sind sie Konsumexperten ¿ MTV, In-Restaurants, Drogen und Armani ¿ man trifft sich zum Essen, zur Koksline, zum Sex, und man hat sich doch nichts zu sagen. Ihre Eltern stehen ihnen dabei in nichts nach, frustrierte Ehefrauen aus dem Filmbusiness halten sich Liebhaber im Alter ihrer Söhne, ein Vater nötigt seinen Sohn zum Wochenendtrip nach Hawaii, der sich als Fahrt ins blanke Nichts entpuppt. Ein Rockstar auf Welttournee schändet im Drogenrausch Zimmermädchen und Groupies, um dann von seinem Manager zu verlangen, was der Wunsch all dieser saturierten Upper-Class-Figuren zu sein scheint: »Bring mir meine Träume in Ordnung.«

In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist. It continues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across the globe. Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, Less Than Zero - narrated by Clay, an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas - is a fierce coming-of-age story, justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth, its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity, and its author's refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour.