American Psycho is a horror novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first-person by Patrick Bateman, a wealthy, narcissistic, and vain Manhattan investment …

Mar 1, 1991 · 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.

Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront. …

‘American Psycho’ by Bret Easton Ellis is a novel about a narcissistic psychopath and pathologically lonely 1980s Manhattan Wall Street investment banker, Patrick Bateman.

Mar 6, 1991 · A scathing satire of modern capitalism wrapped in a slick shell of sociopathic sleaze, American Psycho is as grim and disquieting as you'd expect from 1980's Wall Street.

Mar 6, 2025 · "American Psycho" is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991, that delves into the life of Patrick Bateman, a wealthy investment banker in 1980s New York City.

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What lies behind the perfect suit? Our American Psycho book summary & review dissects Bret Easton Ellis's controversial masterpiece about a Wall Street killer lost in a world of brand names and blood.

American Psycho is a horror novel by Bret Easton Ellis that was published in 1991. It was the subject of intense controversy because of its graphic violence.

Mar 6, 1991 · INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in …