American Psycho Summary
Bret Easton Ellis

In 1985, twenty-one-year-old Bret Easton Ellis jolted the literary world with his first novel, Less than Zero, and was hailed by more than one critic as the voice of the new generation. His subsequent... Read more

Frequently disliked by reviewers, faulted for his youth and apparent disregard for political correctness, Bret Easton Ellis was the enfant terrible of 1980s fiction. His first novel, Less Than Zero (1... Read more

In the following review, Gardner considers American Psycho among a group of other "transgressive novels." Thirty years ago the art of fiction began to undergo a change similar to one ... Read more

In the following essay, Young appraises American Psycho as a postmodern text. The publication of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho in 1991 was replete with ironies. It seemed as if the wor... Read more