Blurb in Spanish: Mucho se ha hablado de American Psycho. Y lo cierto es que había razón para tanta polémica, pues esta novela de Bret Easton Ellis constituye una de las críticas más feroces que un escritor norteamericano ha hecho a su propio país: una sociedad autocomplaciente y orgullosa de si misma. Para su denuncia, el autor ha escogido un camino arriesgado: Patrick Bateman, el protagonista, no es un rebelde ni un paria; Patrick es un joven de éxito que, sin embargo, también es capaz de violar, torturar y asesinar. Como dijo Fay Weldom, American Psycho es de alguna forma el oscuro complemento de La hoguera de las vanidades, por cuanto descubre aquellos puntos negros de la vida de los supuestos triunfadores que la novela de Tom Wolfe quiso obviar.
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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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Everything from Bret is Gold!!,
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This review is from: American Psycho- Spanish (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
Well , i don't have much to say about American psycho from Bret E.E, and probably if you're reading this you must know his work, so, This is an Incredible book, if you saw the movie based on this Title you won't lose the book because it is very detailed, nice! each Patrick Bateman thougth and movement is detailed :) You read it in spanish, english or any language, is worth it, Thanks to bret and thanks to Open Road Books, they are great!!
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Enter the mind of Patrick Bateman...,
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This review is from: American Psycho (Spanish version) (Spanish Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)
I love this book. It's hilarious, and Patrick Bateman may be the most fascinating character I've ever read about. Ellis's writing is flawless, biting and witty except on the rare occasions when he chooses to be somber (and the book is actually pretty sad when he does). There's a lot of intense violence in this book; but because you read about it in such a blunt, matter-of-fact way, you don't feel it at all, and it actually amuses, rather than appals, you. The people Patrick kills (or rapes, or tortures) don't seem real, and it's as if Patrick (and, by extension, the reader) is God, and those people are merely insignificant, lesser beings who serve no purpose other than to be killed (or raped, or tortured). In short, we enter the mind of a serial killer. And no one can deny that it's an interesting place to be.
Oh yeah, and it's really entertaining to watch as Patrick spins further and further out of control, and no one notices. Probably the best social commentary/satire I've ever read =)
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