Description
A first UK edition, first printing of American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, published by Picador in 1998. A near fine copy without internal inscriptions, some light spotting to the top and fore-edge of the text block. In a fine unclipped wrapper.
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis follows Patrick Bateman, a wealthy young investment banker living amid the excesses of 1980s Manhattan. Obsessed with status, designer labels and appearances, Bateman conceals an increasingly violent and disturbing inner life. Combining savage satire, black comedy and horror, the novel attacks consumerism, greed and moral emptiness. Its deliberately repetitive descriptions of restaurants, clothes and possessions create a chilling portrait of a society in which identity has become almost entirely superficial.
