5/20/2023 0 Comments American psycho less than zeroRobert Mallory, who Bret is sure he has seen before, is handsome, comfortable with himself, and extremely alluring - but he's also a bit strange and enigmatic. However, that changes when a new student with a mysterious past arrives at Buckley. behind while floating aimlessly through the life of the wealthy and popular in L.A.'s best neighborhoods. Bret's life is about parties, working on his first novel, secret sex with men, and dreaming of leaving L.A. He hangs out with the cool crowd, has an attractive girlfriend, lives mostly alone and in his own world in his rich parents' house, and drives a Mercedes 450SL. Hermetic, paranoid, sleek, dark - and with brief explosions of the sex and violence that have characterized Ellis' oeuvre - The Shards is a stark reminder that the American Psycho author is a genre unto himself.īret is a 17-year-old senior at Buckley, a prestigious L.A. And his latest, The Shards, is a narrative that came to him in 1981 - more than four decades ago - when he was a 17-year-old high school senior. It's been a dozen years since Bret Easton Ellis published a novel.
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