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Fiction · Transgressive Fiction

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis
1991 · 399 pages

Patrick Bateman works mergers and acquisitions, agonizes over the typeface on a colleague's business card, and narrates atrocities in the voice he uses for Huey Lewis albums. Reagan's Wall Street becomes horror comedy.

★ 5.4