Title: American Psycho
First published: 1991
Description: American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan investment banker. Alison Kelly of The Observer notes that while "some countries [deem it] so potentially disturbing that it can only be sold shrink-wrapped", "critics rave about it" and "academics revel in its transgressive and postmodern qualities".
Subjects: Gothic & Horror, Literary Fiction, capitalism, postmodernism, id, schizophrenia, consumerism, stream of consciousness, cocaine, pop music, unreliable narrators, vanity, sadism, rape, torture, mutilation, cannibalism, SWAT teams, necrophilia, investment bankers, psychological fiction, horror tales, Fiction, Rapists, Serial murderers in fiction, Women in fiction, Crimes against Women, Rapists in fiction, Novela estadounidense, Serial murderers, Psychopaths, Cuentos de terror, Psychopaths in fiction, Women, Crimes against, Violence, Serial murders, Fiction, psychological, Bateman, pat (fictitious character), fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Samfundssatire, Sex, Vold, Psykologisk thriller, Yuppier, Women--crimes against, Women--crimes against--fiction, Serial murderers--fiction, Psychopaths--fiction, Rapists--fiction, Ps3555.l5937 a8 1991, 813/.54
Places: Wall Street (New York, N.Y.), Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), Manhattan, Wall Street, New York, London
People: Patrick Bateman, Evelyn Richards, Timothy Price, Paul Owen, Jean, Luis Carruthers, Courtney Lawrence, Craig McDermott, David Van Patten, Christie, Elizabeth, Marcus Halberstam, Donald Kimball, Alison Poole, Sean Bateman, Paul Denton, Christopher Armstrong, Bethany, Stash, Vanden, Al
Time periods: 1980s
LC classification: PS3555.L5937 A8 1991