Very controversial upon getting published Bret Easton Ellis’s disturbing satire American Psycho explores the life of Patrick Bateman a stereotypical eighties yuppie who has it all beautiful fiancée, high paying job and the best fashion but also is a serial murder.
The novel set in New York follows Bateman through his own perspective as he goes to work, goes to parties, argues with friends over the best fashion and appliances and while he tortures and kills people mostly women.
While very gruesome, violent and graphic American Psycho is often very darkly hilarious as it satirizes vanity, consumerism and machismo in eighties Wall street culture.
Disturbing and not for the suitable for the weak stomached but anyone who can handle it will find it most enjoyable.
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