Bret Easton Ellis is the author of Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama and Lunar Park, which have been translated into 27 languages.
By Bret Easton Ellis
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Alan Hollinghurst, Alice Sebold, Anna Raverat, Anna Richards, Belinda McKeon, Ben Myers, Bret Easton Ellis, Carol Ann Duffy, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Edward Docx, Edward St Aubyn, Ellen Bryson, Ellen Feldman, Emma Donoghue, Frances Kay, Gavin Knight, Gerard Woodward, Graham Swift, Helen Fielding, Helen Oyeyemi, Howard Cunnell, Howard Cunnell, Howard Cunnell , Jackie Kay, Jacob Polley, Joe Meno, John Banville, John Butler, Jon Ronson, Kate Long, Kevin Cook, Kevin Wilson, Kirsten Reed, Matteo Pericoli, Megan Abbott, Miguel Syjuco, Naomi Wood, Rahul Bhattacharya, Roberto Bolaño, Sarah Rayner, Shalom Auslander, Stuart Evers, Sunjeev Sahota, Thomas Trofimuk, Tim Winton
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
Picador 40th Anniversary Edition
Celebrating forty years of outstanding international writing, Picador reissues twelve essential novels.
‘American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel’ Fay Weldon
Even before its publication in 1991, American Psycho captured the attention and imagination of readers. Now an acknowledged modern classic and a multimillion-copy bestseller, it continues to be one of the most talked-about books of all time. A film based on the novel, starring Christian Bale, was released in 2000.
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collision with America’s greatest dream – and its worst nightmare – American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.
In 2012 Picador celebrate our 40th anniversary. During that time we have published many prize-winning and bestselling authors including Bret Easton Ellis and Cormac McCarthy, Alice Sebold and Helen Fielding, Graham Swift and Alan Hollinghurst. Years later, Picador continue to bring readers the very best contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across the globe.
Discover more at picador.com/40
As part of our 40th Anniversary celebrations our artwork team has designed a set of stunning animated covers that breathe new life into some of our classic Picador titles.
