American Psycho

The sophisticated, intelligent and vain Patrick Bateman works on Wall Street, idolizes the young mogul Donald Trump, dines in the fashionable restaurants of New York and is able to distinguish an Armani suit from fifty meters away. He also likes to rape, torture, murder and dismember. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis's most controversial novel, has become the starkest reflection of the hypermaterialist society of the late 1980s and one of the masterpieces of the late 20th century. Bret Easton Ellis launches a corrosive critique of the selfishness and depravity of exacerbated capitalism: a bleak, ironic, and rabidly current portrait of a world on the brink of collapse in which we still live.