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Bret Easton Ellis:
Lunar Park(2005) - Imagine becoming a best-selling novelist, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, while after American Psycho your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze, and drugs. Then imagine having a second chance ten years later, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given, with a wife, children, and suburban sobriety--only to watch this new life shatter beyond recognition in a matter of days. At a fateful Halloween party he glimpses a disturbing (fictional) character driving a car identical to his late father's, his stepdaughter's doll violently "malfunctions," and their house undergoes bizarre transformations both within and without. Connecting these aberrations to graver events--a series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his son's age--Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace even as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania. Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting horror, both psychological and supernatural, toward an astonishing resolution--about love and loss, fathers and sons--in what is surely the most powerfully original and deeply moving novel of an extraordinary career.
Glamorama(1998) - Glamorama follows Victor Ward, model, aspiring actor, partner in the hottest new club in town, and "it" boy of the moment, from his familiar turf of beautiful people and ultrahip parties to a dark world of terrorism and violence. It is a novel that takes us from a culture ruled by beauty, celebrity, and vacuous conversation to one in which hotels blow up and planes fall from the sky. It is a novel that reminds us that a world in which people are judged solely for their appearances can also be one in which nothing is as it appears to be.
The Informers(1994) - This powerful and poignant novel of L.A., from the author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho, depicts a generation's overwhelming dissatisfaction with the way things are, and its insistence on remaining as detached and isolated as possible.
American Psycho(1991) - 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.
The Rules of Attraction(1987) - Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives. The Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance.
Less Than Zero(1985) - Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait
of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a
world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or
hope.
Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of
limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago,
and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his
best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday
turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy
mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.
Music
Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Phil Collins, and Bob Dylan.
Movies
Film adaptations of the novels: "Less Than Zero" (1987), "American Psycho" (2000), and his favorite film adaptation of any of his novels so far, "The Rules of Attraction" (2002).
Television
Books
Authors whose work has inspired or interested Bret are: James Joyce, John Updike, Ernest Hemingway, Joan Didion, Don DeLillo, and many others. Books he has written: "Less Than Zero" (1985), "The Rules of Attraction" (1987), "American Psycho" (1991), "The Informers" (linked short stories, 1994), "Glamorama" (1999), and "Lunar Park" (2005).
Bret Easton Ellis was born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles and raised in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley. The son of Robert Martin Ellis, a wealthy property developer, and Dale Ellis, a housewife, his parents divorced in 1982. He was educated at Buckley High School, where he did not distinguish himself, and then took a music-based course at Bennington College in Vermont, which is thinly disguised as Camden Arts College in several of his novels. He was a part-time musician in some minor 1980's bands, such as The Parents, before his first book 'Less Than Zero' was published while he was still a student. 'Less Than Zero', a tale of disaffected, rich teenagers of Los Angeles, was critically acclaimed and sold more than fifty thousand copies in its first year. It would eventually be made into a Hollywood film starring Robert Downey Jr.
In 1987 Bret moved to New York to release his second novel, 'The Rules of Attraction', about an odd love triangle between both homo and heterosexual college students at Camden Arts College in New England. The book became another best-seller and Hollywood feature film, raising Bret Easton Ellis to even higher celebrity status.
His most controversial work, the graphically violent novel 'American Psycho', was intended to be published by Simon & Schuster, but they withdrew after external protests and pressure from Gulf & Western. The novel was later published by Vintage. Some consider this novel, whose protagonist, Patrick Bateman, is both a cartoonishly materialistic yuppie and a serial killer, to be an example of transgressive art, while many others consider the novel to be dangerously misogynistic and worse. 'American Psycho' has achieved considerable cult status.
As a follow up to 'American Psycho', Bret Easton Ellis released 'The Informers', which was a collection of 13 loosely related short stories whose characters interactions compose a chilling, fascinating, and outrageous descent into the abyss beneath L.A.'s gorgeous surfaces.
His latest work is the novel 'Lunar Park', which is a unique blend of fiction and nonfiction, featuring Bret Easton Ellis himself as the lead protagonist in a breath-taking novel with a Poltergeist theme to it.
Bret is currently working on a follow up to "Less Than Zero" currently titled "Imperial Bedrooms".
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