American Psycho - NUMBERED LIMITED HEIRLOOM PRODUCTION

BRET EASTON ELLIS SIGNED US FIRST EDITION HARDBACK

ISBN 10: 1613470193 / ISBN 13: 9781613470190

Verlag: Centipede Press USA, 2012

Beschreibung

SIGNED BY BRET EASTON ELLIS - American Psycho remains one of the most notorious novels ever published. Originally slated for publication by Simon and Schuster, the hardcover edition was cancelled and the novel was published in trade paperback by Vintage. The novel met immediately with attacks and condemnation, but was simultaneously praised by some of the brightest literary critics and it continues to divide opinion today.This edition features a superb new introduction by John Langan. And there is another exclusive, a lengthy bonus interview with Bret Easton Ellis. This is the ONLY American hardcover edition of this novel ever published. Each numbered copy is signed by Bret Easton Ellis, John Langan and Ben Baldwin. The signed edition is limited to ONLY 200 copies, and this is number 86. Full colour dustjacket, now protected, gorgeous textured red endpapers, head and tail bands, ribbon marker, and most elegantly bound in black Brillianta cloth with an image inlay on front board. THIS IS A GREAT SMALL PRESS EDITION. To the many fans of this extraordinary book, please note: THIS IS NOT AN EXIT. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Buchnummer des Verkäufers ABE-8852595193

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Titel: American Psycho - NUMBERED LIMITED HEIRLOOM ...

Verlag: Centipede Press USA

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand:As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: Limited Edition....

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Inhaltsangabe:

One of the most maligned, misunderstood, and well-read books of the 1990s makes its first-ever United States hardcover appearance. This new edition features terrific cover art, a new introduction by John Langan, and a lengthy interview with the author. All copies signed by the author.

Review:

Brett Easton Ellis established a reputation as the enfant terrible of American fiction in the 1980s with his controversial novel Less than Zero, but with the publication of American Psycho he became established as one of the most notorious and reviled novelists currently writing. American Psycho deserves its controversy. The novel opens with a sign scrawled above a New York subway station: "Abandon hope all ye who enter". So begins a hellish descent into the world of Patrick Bateman, the novel's protagonist. Bateman is a handsome 26-year-old Wall Street yuppie, who spends his days listening to Whitney Houston and working out which exclusive restaurant to eat in and what clothes to wear in a dizzying parody of 1980s consumerism run mad.

However, Bateman also has a darker side; he is a psychopathic serial killer, with a penchant for torturing and sexually abusing young women before killing them in the most gruesome and explicit fashion. The novel contains little actual plot, and consists of extended descriptions of exclusive restaurants, designer clothes, TV shows and the minutiae of Bateman's vacuous world, relieved only by clinically described scenes of torture and mutilation which are not for the faint-hearted. Bateman makes little attempt to justify his actions, merely claiming that "this is the way the world--my world--moves". As a satire on the bankrupt, money-driven world of the 1980s, American Psycho is a successful, if rather heavy-handed piece of fiction, whose controversy seems only set to increase. --Jerry Brotton