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1 day ago · 57549743. Dewey Decimal. 813/.54 22. LC Class. PS3555.L5937 L86 2005. Lunar Park is a mock memoir by American writer Bret Easton Ellis. It was released by Knopf in 2005. It was the first book written by Ellis to use past tense narrative. [1]
2 days ago · While I have read and can strongly recommend the original novel by Bret Easton Ellis, I will be looking at the iconic scene from the 2001 movie adaptation. Christian Bale’s Bateman may skip describing a few steps, but one cannot claim he is not embodying the character’s decadence and obsession.
19 hours ago · If Keith Haring has come to represent a certain school of 1980s queer culture, Bret Easton Ellis is emblematic of another: Elitist rather than exuberant; perpetually closet-haunted. While the height of Ellis’ fame (and infamy), came with the investment banker/murderer satire American Psycho , which was set in Manhattan, his sleek, tweezed-eyebrow prose style has always been rooted in his ...
19 hours ago · July 26, 2024. Yasmin Zaher, photographed by Willy Somma. The glamorous protagonist of Yasmin Zaher ’s debut novel The Coin is a singular force. She has a capsule wardrobe of designer clothing and a multi-step Korean skincare routine. She arrives in New York with nothing but a wallet full of cash, an allowance from her sizable inheritance ...
3 days ago · The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis - Vintage . This semi-autobiographical novel follows Bret, a horny, closeted 17-year-old in 1981 Los Angeles. He spends his time driving his Jaguar down Mulholland, lusting over his best friend, avoiding sex with his girlfriend, having a clandestine affair with a surfer who ends up murdered by a serial killer, and self-medicating with quaaludes and cocaine.
19 hours ago · ‘It’s So Easy’, another classic from the band’s 1987 debut Appetite for Destruction, tells the tale of the band being broke and living off their hangers-on, a hard-partying and hollow time, which brings to mind aspects of Bret Easton Ellis’ descriptions of the ‘City of Angels’ in this period.
19 hours ago · Audiences familiar with 90s TV may recognise the dynamic between Owen and Maddy as something like Rickie Vasquez and Rayanne Graff in the smallscreen classic My So-Called Life, and the mixture of genuine fear and genuine rapture – and genuine longing for a compromised teen past – has something of those 90s masters Bret Easton Ellis and Douglas Coupland.
