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Bret Easton Ellis - Imperial Bedrooms
Released: 02/07/2010
Picador
Clay, now a successful screenwriter, returns to Los Angeles and his old circle of hedonistic friends. It isn't long before familiar vices re-emerge, developing into a menacing sequence of glamour, death and betrayal. 25 years on from Less than Zero Brett Easton Ellis raises hell once again.
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The New York Times“A work of limited imagination...” Somewhere beyond this posturing there’s an element of real malaise in “Imperial Bedrooms.” The anomie and plot-derived menace may be contrived, but there’s a dread that feels genuine...
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40%
Scotsman“Pat, lazy and effortful all at once...” As old-fashioned as something by Arthur Conan-Doyle. A skilled novelist, one who wants to examine the way we live and why, needs to move the conversation forward. The obligation is even greater if he's returning to a world he's depicted before...
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80 %
Publishers Weekly“A stellar stand-alone...” The story takes on a creepy noirish bent as it barrels toward a conclusion that reveals the horror that lies at the center of a tortured soul. Ellis fans will delight in the characters and Ellis's easy hand in manipulating their fates...
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The Boston Globe“Not literature but product placement...” So empty and venal and misogynistic it's downright insulting. What, exactly, is this book? Is it supposed to be some kind of cultural artifact? A time capsule from the era of parachute pants and big hair? It’s certainly not a novel...
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70 %
The Independent“An unflinching study of evil...” Often, descriptions of Clay's LA verge on a Brave New World-style fantasy, where the "command economy" now manifests as rampant, late-capitalist consumerism, where ambien is the new soma and humans are zombies...
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70 %
Financial Times“A taut and terrifying novel...” Above all, he wants to know why – or rather when – people become monsters. His answer is played out in the form and style of his writing as much as in its content. Formally he has something in common with David Lynch, another great LA auteur...
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70 %
The Telegraph“A wonderfully merciless novel...” Although American Psycho will always be Ellis’s most graphic novel, Imperial Bedrooms is in many ways even more disturbing. American Psycho, Ellis always claimed, had a moral and satirical intent; Imperial Bedrooms is nothing but nihilism...
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60%
Guardian“Ellis documents atrocity unsparingly...” Do the rapes and murders in this novel stand for America's political and economic relations with non-western countries? Perhaps. Ellis has always (enjoying the paradox) styled himself a moralist, so is he trying to teach us something? Possibly...
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The New Yorker“There’s not a whisper of conscience here...” The plot, involving a high-end prostitution ring and multiple murders, is incoherent, and the insights, such as they are (“Sadness: it’s everywhere”), fail to give resonance to the mounting horror. Still, few are as expert as Ellis...
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