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American Psycho

Written by: Bret Easton Ellis
Narrated by: Pablo Schreiber
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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.

As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of Bret Easton Ellis' book, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview that begins when the audiobook ends.

©1991 Bret Easton Ellis (P)2009 Audible, Inc. Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Horror Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Serial Killers Scary Comedy Thriller Suspense
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What the critics say

"Bret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and] American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel....The novelist's function is to keep a running tag on the progress of the culture; and he's done it brilliantly....A seminal book." ( The Washington Post)
"The first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themes....[Ellis] is showing older authors where the hands have come to on the clock....He has forced us to look at intolerable material, and so few novelists try for that anymore." ( Vanity Fair)
"A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious, ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book." (Katherine Dunn)
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The book is marvellous, props to Bret Easton Ellis. Can’t wait to get into more of his work.

American Psycho

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American Psycho was always a book I've been interested in but never took the time to read or listen to. While I did really like the ambiguity, I wasn't a fan of the ending.

it was alright

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what a great book, so violent and visceral I don't know what really what to say about it. there were times when I really don't know what to say. I would say listen to this book but understand that it's going to touch a lot of points in your mind that you've never never wanted to be touch before. I hope you enjoy it.

thrilling

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Amazing novel and perhaps even better performance by the narrator. Disturbing material to be sure.

Great Book

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Loved it...Naration is well done, well written. A peek into the mind of a sociopath. Not for the faint of heart. VERY GRAPHIC VIOLENCE.

Graphic but great naration and writing

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