Glamorama (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Bret Easton Ellis
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: New York, London, Paris, Milan
- Principal Characters: Victor Ward, Chloe Byrnes, Bobby Hughes, Jamie Fields, F. Fred Palakon, Alison Poole, Damien Nutchs Ross
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Paris, London, Ships, Terrorism or terrorists, Fashion, 1990’s, Italy or Italians
- Locales: New York, NY, Paris, France, London, England, Milan, Italy
Labeled the “bad boy” of the precocious brat pack of young novelists who came of age during the mid-1980’s, Bret Easton Ellis is a distinguished chronicler of the idle young rich. His popular first novel, Less Than Zero (1985), depicts a young man’s gradual drugged descent into the underworld of upper-class Los Angeles. While his Rules of Attraction (1987), a rambling multi-narrated story about Camden College students, failed to garner much attention, Ellis returned to the media spotlight with American Psycho (1991), a cause célèbre novel more...
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