American Psycho

The modern classic, the basis of a Broadway musical, and major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale, Chloe Sevigny, Jared Leto, and Reese Witherspoon, and directed by Mary Harron. 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. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

The modern classic, the basis of a Broadway musical, and major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale, Chloe Sevigny, Jared Leto, and Reese Witherspoon, and directed by Mary Harron. 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. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

"American Psycho" is the violent, dark satire and modern classic by Bret Easton Ellis about the yuppie and psychopath Patrick Bateman. Patrick Bateman is on top of the world. He looks good, he is charming, earns good money at Wall Street and always has a table at the most popular New York restaurants. But Patrick Bateman is also a cold, superficial psychopath that kills for pleasure. Bret Easton Ellis's "American Psycho" is one of the most read and iconic stories in modern literature. This edition includes a foreword by Irvine Welsh.

"American Psycho" is the violent, dark satire and modern classic by Bret Easton Ellis about the yuppie and psychopath Patrick Bateman. Patrick Bateman is on top of the world. He looks good, he is charming, earns good money at Wall Street and always has a table at the most popular New York restaurants. But Patrick Bateman is also a cold, superficial psychopath that kills for pleasure. Bret Easton Ellis's "American Psycho" is one of the most read and iconic stories in modern literature. This edition includes a foreword by Irvine Welsh.

Patrick Bateman arbejder på New Yorks Wall Street om dagen. Om natten myrder og torterer han tilfældige ofre i en raffineret og vulgær blodrus. Men mest uhyggeligt er det næsten, at han ignoreres når han tilstår… AMERICAN PSYCHO fra 1991 er en amerikansk litteraturs største nyklassikere. Christian Bale spillede hovedrollen i den ikoniske filmatisering fra 2000. Bret Easton Ellis (f. 1964) bor i Los Angeles og har skrevet syv romaner. American Psycho, der udkom første gang i 1991, blev hans store gennembrud, men medførte samtidig dødstrusler mod forfatteren og en lang, ophedet debat over det meste af verden pga. dens tema: aggressiv og lystfyldt vold i et 1980’ernes New York optændt af gold materialisme. Senest er udkommet romanen Skår. Hans romaner er oversat til over 30 sprog.

Om dagen er Patrick Bateman børsmægler på Wall Street. Om natten torturerer og myrder han tilfældige ofre i en raffineret og vulgær blodrus. Men i 1980’ernes statusfikserede New York er der ikke rigtig nogen, der lægger mærke til det … AMERICAN PSYCHO er en af 1990’ernes væsentligste romaner – og den mest kontroversielle. På én gang en satirisk komedie og nedstigning til helvede. Bogen er blevet filmatiseret af Mary Harron. Christian Bale spiller hovedrollen som yuppien og seriemorderen Patrick Bateman. ”Årets litterære chok” Berlingske ”Et hovedværk i moderne litteratur” Standart

The modern classic, the basis of a Broadway musical, and major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale, Chloe Sevigny, Jared Leto, and Reese Witherspoon, and directed by Mary Harron. 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. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.