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Zusatztext The novel is a kind of modern noir and! as in Chandler! the form's accepted master! atmosphere is king. Paranoia prevails. Informationen zum Autor Bret Easton Ellis is the author of several novels, including Imperial Bedrooms, Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama and Lunar Park , and a collection of stories, The Informers . Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho and The Informers have all been made into films. His first work of non-fiction, White , was published in 2019. He is the host of the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast available on Patreon. He lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with Less Than Zero , his 'extraordinarily accomplished first novel' ( New Yorker ). Twenty-five years later, he returns to those same characters - to Clay and the band of infamous teenagers whose lives weave sporadically through his - but now they face an even greater period of disaffection: their own middle age. Clay seems to have moved on - he's become a successful screenwriter - but when he returns from New York to Los Angeles, to help cast his new movie, he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle. Only this time, it's darker and more ominous than ever before. Clay's seemingly endless proclivity for betrayal and exploitation finds him connected with Kelly Montrose, a producer whose gruesomely violent death is suddenly very much the talk of the town. And worse still, someone seems to be following him, stalking him even. 'A murder mystery - a woozy, paranoid, hallucinatory version of LA noir' Sunday Times 'Easton Ellis adds the playful self-advertisements of Philip Roth to the ambiguously complicit social reportage of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Imperial Bedrooms ranks with his best exercises in the latter register, teeming with sharp details of a narcissistic generation' Guardian 'Brilliantly written and coolly self-aware . . . has a thriller's pace and structure . . . Here, as in Less Than Zero , Ellis is plumbing the depths of human nature, exposing it at its worst.' Observer 'The novel is a kind of modern noir and, as in Chandler, the form's accepted master, atmosphere is king. Paranoia prevails' Independent on Sunday What's become of Less Than Zero 's over-privileged teenagers? Bret Easton Ellis's sequel Imperial Bedrooms takes us back to LA as they face an even greater period of disaffection: their own middle age. Zusammenfassung What's become of Less Than Zero's over-privileged teenagers? Bret Easton Ellis's sequel Imperial Bedrooms takes us back to LA as they face an even greater period of disaffection: their own middle age....
