The Informers

Zusatztext “ The Informers skillfully accomplishes its goal of depicting a modern moral wasteland. . . arguably Ellis's best.” — The Boston Globe   “A post-modern Winesburg! Ohio. . . . Ellis's cleverness is on full display. . . . He has a keen ear for dialogue! a sharp eye for the moral bankruptcy of modern life! and a vivid imagination.” — San Francisco Chronicle   “ The Informers is spare! austere! elegantly designed! telling in detail! coolly ferocious! sardonic in its humor; every vestige of authorial sentiment is expunged. . . . Truly unsettling.” — The New York Times Book Review   “Bret Easton Ellis. . . is an extremely traditional and very serious American novelist. He is the model of literary filial piety! counting among his parents Ernest Hemingway! F. Scott Fitzgerald! Nathanael West! and Joan Didion.” — The Washington Post Informationen zum Autor BRET EASTON ELLIS is the author of Less Than Zero , The Rules of Attraction , American Psycho , The Informers, Glamorama , Lunar Park , and Imperial Bedrooms . His works have been translated into twenty-seven languages. Less Than Zero , The Rules of Attraction , American Psycho , and The Informers have all been made into films. He lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext The basis of the major motion picture starring Billy Bob Thornton, KimBasinger and Mickey Rourke, The Informers is a seductive and chillingly nihilistic novel, in which Bret Easton Ellis, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose moral badlands he portrayed so unforgettably in Less Than Zero. This time is the early eighties. The characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard over a car radio. They have sex with the same boys and girls and buy from the same dealers. In short, they are connected in the only way people can be in that city. Dirk sees his best friend killed in a desert car wreck, then rifles through his pockets for a last joint before the ambulance comes. Cheryl, a wannabe newscaster, chides her future stepdaughter, "You're tan but you don't look happy." Jamie is a clubland carnivore with a taste for human blood. As rendered by Ellis, their interactions compose a chilling, fascinating, and outrageous descent into the abyss beneath L.A.'s gorgeous surfaces. Leseprobe 1 BRUCE CALLS FROM MULHOLLAND Bruce calls, stoned and sunburned, from Los Angeles and tells me that he's sorry. He tells me he's sorry for not being here, at campus with me. He tells me that I was right, that he should have flown to the workshop this summer, and he tells me that he's sorry he's not in New Hampshire and that he's sorry he hasn't called me in a week and I ask him what he's doing in Los Angeles and don't mention that it has been two months. Bruce tells me that things went bad ever since Robert left the apartment they were sharing on Fifty-sixth and Park and went on a white-water-rafting trip with his stepfather down the Colorado River, leaving his girlfriend, Lauren, who also lives in the apartment on Fifty-sixth and Park, and Bruce alone, together, for four weeks. I have never met Lauren but I know what kind of girl Robert is attracted to and I can picture what she must look like clearly in my mind and then I'm thinking of the girls who are attracted to Robert, beautiful and pretending to ignore the fact that Robert, at twenty-two, is worth about three hundred million dollars, and I picture this girl, Lauren, lying on Robert's futon, head thrown back, Bruce moving slowly on top of her, his eyes shut tightly. Bruce tells me that the affair started a week after Robert left. Bruce and Lauren had gone to Café Central and after they sent back the food and decided just to have drinks, they agreed it would be sex only. It...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Bret Easton Ellis
• Editore: Vintage USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.08.1995
• EAN: 9780679743248
• ISBN: 978-0-679-74324-8
• Pagine: 240
• Dimensioni: 132 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Serie: ALFRED A. KNOPF; Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Contemporaries; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi