5/28/2023 0 Comments American psycho book review![]() ![]() Granted, his schema–to satirize yuppie culture of the period while making poignant, scathing comparisons to modern-day society–is admirable and intriguing. Set in Manhattan in 1987 and ending at the offset of the following decade, the narrative follows the daily routine of one Patrick Bateman, a late twenties, Harvard-educated investment banker and Vice President of a Wall Street firm, Pierce & Pierce, as the stresses of his job and social life culminate in an unabated homicidal rage.Įllis, one of the pretty boy postmodern (or “Pomo” for the in-crowd) figureheads of contemporary literature, takes on too much for his above-average writing abilities with American Psycho. Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial 1991 novel, American Psycho, is a torturous text, not only for the characters involved, but also the reader. ![]()
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