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Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis

Americanb. March 7, 1964Popular Fiction

Bret Easton Ellis is an American author whose debut Less Than Zero and American Psycho became cultural touchstones of the 1980s and 1990s. His satirical portraits of wealthy, empty American youth remain controversial and influential.

Works

  • Less Than ZeroA privileged teenager's moral descent into drugs, excess, and alienation in California→
  • The Rules of AttractionYoung students navigate desire, betrayal, and moral complexity at a liberal arts college→
  • American PsychoAn investment banker's descent into murderous madness in 1980s Manhattan→
  • GlamoramaA fashion obsessed former male model navigates the fashion world and terrorism→
  • Lunar ParkA washed-up actor confronts his past and questions reality in contemporary Manhattan→

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