"I’m breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions, because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit."
DESCRIPTION
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront
FACT
- The original publishers Simon & schuster withdrew the book due to "aesthetic differences"
- Some countries imposed restrictions on the sales of the book, such as 18 and over or sold in shrink- wrapped in Germany and Australia.
- Feminist Gloria Steinem disapproved of the book's portrayal of violance towards women. Ironically, she is the stepmother of Christian Bale who played leading role in film adaptation.
- In 2000 the movie version was released, staring Christian Bales along side Chloe Sevigny, Reece Witherspoon and Jaret Leto
HATE REVIEW
the most loathsome offering of the season
----Roger Rosenblatt, New York Times
PRAISE
Serious, clever and shatteringly effective
---Sunday Times
For its savagely coherent picture of a society lethally addicted to blandness, it should be judged by the highest standards ---John Walsh, Sunday Times
The Demon (1976) Hubert Selby Jr.
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A womanizer’s struggle for self-control spirals into crime, madness, and murder. Harry White grew up in blue-collar Brooklyn, but the young man’s charm, smarts, and good looks have helped him earn a place as an uptown junior executive. White’s gifts have also made his love life easy, and he takes special pleasure in seducing married women. But when “Harry the Lover” is ready to grow up and leave his womanizing behind, White finds that suppressing his libido has dangerous consequences. His attempts at restraint awaken something sinister, causing White to seek excitement in a new form of violence and depravity. Shocking and enthralling, The Demon is an unflinching meditation on male vanity by one of the most acclaimed and original writers of the twentieth century. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Hubert Selby Jr. including rare photos from the author’s estate.
FACT - Hubert Selby Jr author or Last exit to Brooklyn and Requim for a Dream, both of which have been turned into films.
- He faced an obscenity trial for his book Last Exit to Brooklyn
PRAISE
Author of the controversial cult classic, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby began as a writer of short fiction. He plunges the reader head-first into the densely realized worlds of his protagonists, in which the details of daily life rub shoulders with obsession and madness. Although fundamentally concerned with morality, Selby's own sense of humility prevents him from preaching. He offers instead a passionate empathy with the ordinary dreams and aspirations of his characters, a brilliant ear for the urban vernacular and for the voices of conscience and self-deceit that torment his characters.
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