Bret Easton Ellis
1) Glamourama
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
«Brillante. [...] Ellis recrea la época mejor que Tom Wolfe o Don DeLillo.
[...] Se está convirtiendo en uno de los escritores americanos de mayor genialidad».
GQ
En el Manhattan de los noventa, Victor Ward, un modelo con abdominales esculpidos y amistades influyentes, es visto y fotografiado en todas partes, incluso en lugares en los que nunca ha estado y con personas que ni siquiera
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Language
English
Formats
Description
In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films, released Spring 2000, starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In American...
4) The shards
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
593 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city"--
Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school. Robert Mallory, a new student, is bright, handsome, charismatic-- and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's...
6) White
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Combining personal reflection and social observation, Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction is an incendiary polemic about this young century's failings, e-driven and otherwise, and at once an example, definition, and defense of what 'freedom of speech' truly means. Bret Easton Ellis has wrestled with the double-edged sword of fame and notoriety for more than thirty years now, since Less Than Zero catapulted him into the limelight in 1985,...
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Returning to Los Angeles from his Eastern college for a Christmas vacation in the early 1980s, Clay "reenters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine ... A raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation."--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (approximately 7 hours, 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories on the dream factory that is Los Angeles and the nasty people it produces. In The Secrets of Summer, a man picks up women in bars with promises of cocaine and when they are stoned drinks their blood. By the author of American Psycho.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a strange wave of mysterious drownings of male college students plagues the California coast, Jake struggles to keep his life together at school. Finding himself stalked by a hooded figure driving an unmarked van, Jake fears he may become the next victim in the killers' horrific spree.
11) American psycho
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
12) The informers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles, 1980s. Centers on an array of characters who represent both the top of the heap-- a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster - and the very bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Connecting the intertwining strands are a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs and one another with total abandon. They don't realizing that they are dancing on...
