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American Psycho
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- Author
- Bret Easton Ellis
- First published
- 1991
- Editions
- 46
- Subjects
- Gothic & Horror, Literary Fiction, capitalism, postmodernism, id, schizophrenia, consumerism, stream of consciousness
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Key facts
- Author
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Cover artist
- Marshall Arisman
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Transgressive fiction postmodern novel black comedy satire horror
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Publication date
- March 6, 1991
- Isbn
- 978-0-679-73577-9
- Dewey decimal
- 813/.54 20
- Library of congress classification span
- PS3555.L5937 A8 1991
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Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 90010247
Publisher description
catdir.loc.gov →Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. 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.
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- American Psycho Title.jpg
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- Dewey Decimal Classification (works and editions)
- 813.54
- publication date
- 1991-03-06
- title
- American Psycho
- subtitle
- A Novel
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- catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random047/90010247.html
- Library of Congress Classification (works and editions)
- PS3555.L5937 A8 1991
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American Psycho is a horror novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first-person by Patrick Bateman, a wealthy, narcissistic, and vain Manhattan investment banker who lives a double life as a serial killer. Alison Kelly of The Observer notes that while "some countries [deem it] so potentially disturbing that it can only be sold shrink-wrapped", "critics rave about it" and "academics revel in its transgressive and postmodern qualities".
A film adaptation starring Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman was released in 2000 to generally positive reviews. Producers David Johnson and Jesse Singer developed a musical adaptation. The musical premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London in December 2013 before then transferring to Broadway. In 2023 a five-issue graphic novel version of the book was released, but it strays heavily from the story of the book.