Bret Easton Ellis Libros

Mucho es lo que se ha dicho de American Psycho. Y lo cierto es que habia razon para tanta polemica, pues esta novela de Bret Easton Ellis es una de las criticas mas feroces que un escritor norteamericano ha hecho a su propio pais y a una sociedad autocomplaciente y orgullosa de si misma. Para su denuncia, el autor ha escogido un camino arriesgado: Patrick Bateman, el protagonista de American Psycho, no es un rebelde ni un paria; al contrario, se mueve por las calles de Nueva York como cualquier joven de exito y, sin embargo, es capaz de violar, torturar y asesinar. Patrick comete crimenes y se va de copas con la misma soltura, y eso, mas que la crudeza de los hechos, es lo que nos llena de desasosiego.Como muy bien ha dicho Fay Weldon, American Psycho es el oscuro complemento de La hoguera de las vanidades, por que descubre aquellos puntos negros de los supuestos triunfadores que la novela de Tom Wolfe quiso obviar.

Imagine que se convierte en un autor de gran éxito cuando todavía es universitario. Fama y millones de dólares difuminan la muerte de su insufrible padre. Fiestas glamurosas en Manhattan, sexo y drogas le sumergen en la vorágine de la autodestrucción. Imagine que poco después tiene una segunda oportunidad, como le sucede a Bret Easton Ellis en "Lunar Park": una nueva vida junto a su esposa y sus hijos en un idílico barrio residencial. Sin embargo, todo esto puede cambiar... En una fatídica fiesta de Halloween, Bret Easton Ellis cree ver a uno de sus personajes de ficción más temibles conduciendo un coche como el de su padre, mientras, en la habitación de su hijastra, una muñeca ha cobrado vida. Extrañamente, la casa desprende una atmósfera fantasmal y en el exterior las cosas no parecen ir mejor: se suceden una serie de asesinatos y desapariciones de niños de la misma edad que su hijo. Lunar Park es una obra excepcional en la que se confunden realidad y ficción, y en ella el enfant terrible de la literatura americana arremete contra su propia biografía.

Cuando se publicó Menos que cero en Estados Unidos se produjo un inesperado fenómeno: la primera novela de un autor de 20 años fue saludada por la crítica como El guardián entre el centeno de los años 80, el libro en el que se reconocía una generación, que lo convirtió rapidísimamente en un best-seller. Menos que cero (que es también el título de una canción amarga y cínica de Elvis Costello) cuenta la historia de un joven estudiante que regresa a su casa de Los Angeles para pasar las vacaciones y reencuentra a su grupo de amigos, punkis dorados, hijos de productores y magnates de Hollywood, un clan en el que cada villa tiene su piscina, cada adolescente su dealer. Fiestas interminables, clubs de rock, líneas de coca y hamburguesas y luces de neón... y e1 submundo de la pornografía, las snuff movies y la prostitución masculina: con un estilo glacial, Ellis registra, impasible, la vertiginosa espiral por la que se desliza este grupo de adolescentes que experimentan precozmente con el sexo, las drogas y la desolación

Bret Easton Ellis's masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city. Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equaled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them-and Bret in particular-with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. The coincidences are uncanny, but they are also filtered through the imagination of a teenager whose gifts for constructing narrative from the filaments of his own life are about to make him one of the most explosive literary sensations of his generation. Can he trust his friends-or his own mind-to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, he spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between the Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision. Set against the intensely vivid and nostalgic backdrop of pre-Less Than Zero L.A., The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction, the real and the imagined, that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret's life at seventeen-sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage. Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting, and often darkly funny, The Shards is Ellis at his inimitable best.[Bokinfo]

From the New York Times bestselling author or Less Than Zero and American Psycho—a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England with no plans for the future—or even the present—who become entangled in a romantic triangle. • “An extraordinary writer.” —LA Weekly Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives. Lauren changes boyfriends every time she changes majors and still pines for Victor who split for Europe months ago and she might or might not be writing anonymous love letter to ambivalent, hard-drinking Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren, even if he ends up in bed with half the campus, and Paul, Lauren's ex, forthrightly bisexual and whose passion masks a shrewd pragmatism. They waste time getting wasted, race from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Dressed To Get Screwed parties to drinks at The Edge of the World or The Graveyard. The Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance. The basis for the major motion picture starring James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, and Kate Bosworth.

Bret Easton Ellis is most famous for his era-defining novel American Psycho and its terrifying anti-hero, Patrick Bateman. With that book, and many times since, Ellis proved himself to be one of the world's most fearless and clear-sighted observers of society - the glittering surface and the darkness beneath. In White, his first work of non-fiction, Ellis offers a wide-ranging exploration of what the hell is going on right now. He tells personal stories from his own life. He writes with razor-sharp precision about the music, movies, books and TV he loves and hates. He examines the ways our culture, politics and relationships have changed over the last four decades. He talks about social media, Hollywood celebrities and Donald Trump. Ellis considers conflicting positions without flinching and adheres to no status quo. His forthright views are powered by a fervent belief in artistic freedom and freedom of speech. Candid, funny, entertaining and blisteringly honest, he offers opinions that are impossible to ignore and certain to provoke. What he values above all is the truth. 'The culture at large seemed to encourage discourse,' he writes, 'but what it really wanted to do was shut down the individual.' Bret Easton Ellis will not be shut down.

Victor Ward deambula por una gelida vacuidad, entre lluvias de confeti de colores, rozando apenas relaciones personales; ajeno a que esta condenado a desvanecerse.'El autor de Menos que cero ha pasado por las drogas, las amenazas de muerte y el rechazo de la critica. Con su nueva novela, Glamourama, ha crecido y ha escrito su libro mas ambicioso hasta la fecha.' Rolling Stone.'Es una lastima que este tan de moda detestar a este escritor de 34 anos, en especial cuando la novela en cuestion es un libro de lo mas ocurrente y mordaz sobre la obsesion mas frivola de esta decada: las modelos.' Time Out New York.'Bret Easton Ellis no reconoceria una buena novela aunque la escribiera el mismo. Prueba de ello es que la ha escrito el mismo.' New York Magazine.'El libro parece volverse loco mientras lo estas leyendo, pero Ellis no teme la apariencia del caos. Inventa un infierno nuevo en cada pagina. De forma misteriosa, a traves de todo este tumulto, el estilo se mantiene elegante. Da lo mismo lo trivial u horrible que sea el tema, la prosa sigue arrullandote con una puntuacio9n minima y una cantidad maxima de monosilabos.' Time Out New York.

In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist. Twenty-five years on, Less Than Zero continues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across the globe.Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, Less Than Zero - narrated by Clay, an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas - is a fierce coming-of-age story, justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth, its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity, and its author's refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour.

Cheryl Lane's life is unraveling: her marriage to William is over, and she's living with a younger man. To cope, she drinks, shops, and takes pills. Avoiding a meeting with William, she wonders if facing him might provide the support she desperately needs.