"Patrick Bateman is handsome, well-educated, intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. His nights he spends in ways we can't even imagine. He is twenty-six years old and living his own American Dream."
"This is a well-written beautifully controlled, careful, important novel. A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austin at her vitriolic best. An important book." ---Katherine Dunn
"The first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themes..... (Ellis) is showing older authors where the hands have come to on the clock."
---Norman Mailer, Vanity Fair
"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."
"This is a well-written beautifully controlled, careful, important novel. A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austin at her vitriolic best. An important book." ---Katherine Dunn
"The first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themes..... (Ellis) is showing older authors where the hands have come to on the clock."
---Norman Mailer, Vanity Fair
"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."
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