Glamorama
The author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world. In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture and increases the volume exponentially.Victor Ward,...
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The author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world. In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture and increases the volume exponentially.Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs who exists in magazines and gossip columns and whose life resembles an ultra-hip movie, is living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. And then it's time to move on to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375703843 (0375703845)
ASIN: 375703845
Publish date: March 21st 2000
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 560
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Modern,
Horror,
Cult Classics
It's been over ten years since I read this book.Apart from name-dropping galore, I suppose it was a quick read and rather engaging. But there are more important books around.
I've heard people complain about how difficult it is to read 'Vanity Fair' with its numerous references to the culture and politics of the early 19th century, but Thackeray has nothing on Ellis. 'Glamorama' threatens to be impenetrable in five years.The book is saturated with the names of the famous...