num_pages: 482
description: We'll slide down the surface of things . . .From his first novel-- Less Than Zero , published when he was still a college student--to his most recent--the fierce American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis has been a powerful and original presence in contemporary literature, whether giving voice to a previously inchoate generation or provoking a controversy that raged throughout the culture.Now he takes a quantum leap an awesome reckoning of the American Century at endgame. In Glamorama , a young man in what is recognizably fashion- and celebrity-obsessed Manhattan is gradually, imperceptibly drawn into a shadowy looking-glass of that society, there and in London and Paris, and then finds himself trapped on the other side,in a much darker place where fame and terrorism and family and politics are inextricably linked and sometimes indistinguishable. At once implicated and horror-stricken, his ways of escape blocked at every turn, he ultimately discovers--back on the other, familiar side--that there was no mirror, no escape, no world but this one in which hotels implode and planes fall from the sky.Time and again, the novel confounds one's expectations of it, and Bret Ellis accomplishes the transitions from comic to surreal to horrific to humane with astonishing confidence. Matching ambition with artistic maturity, Glamorama is at once hilarious, savage in its worldly observation, and compassionate in its a defining novel of our times.
language: English
title: Glamorama
titlecomplete: Glamorama
characters: F. Fred Palakon, Chloe Byrnes, Bobby Hughes, Alison Poole, Victor Ward
genres: Thriller, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, The United States Of America, American, Adult, Horror, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 22803
places: Paris, London, England, Manhattan, New York City, New York
publisher: Knopf