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American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

462 pages

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About this book

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to face and it takes us on a head-on collision with America's greatest dream — and its worst nightmare, --back cover

Themes
Dark & BroodingFunny & SatiricalStrange & UnsettlingThought-ProvokingHollow corporate identityConsumerist dehumanizationPerformative masculinityMoral invisibility
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