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American psycho

Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol).In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • "American psycho"@pl
  • "American psycho"@it
  • "American Psycho"

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  • "Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol).In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • ""Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated, intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. His nights he spends in ways we cannot begin to fathom. He is twenty-six years old and living his own American dream"--Bookcover flyleaf."@en
  • "In a dark satire of the 1980s, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything - including murder."
  • ""Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-six and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to compliment the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence." [box cover note]."@en
  • "In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films, released Spring 2000, starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day, while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront."
  • "Press kit includes 1 pamphlet and 3 photographs."@en
  • "Een seriemoordenaar vertelt gedetailleerd over de moorden die hij pleegt en over zijn leven."
  • "In a black satire of the 1980s, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day, while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront."
  • "Om zijn oppervlakkige leven nog enige inhoud te geven komt een jongeman tot steeds gruwelijker daden."
  • "Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day, while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront."@en
  • "Firmly established as a classic, this novel defined the 1980s. American Psycho is a very disturbing, bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to face."@en
  • "Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare - this work is a black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront."
  • "Patrick Bateman, 26 ans, beau, riche, sophistiqué, est l'un des plus flamboyants golden boys de Wall Street. Par ailleurs, il est psychopathe. La nuit, il dévoile sa double personnalité en agressant de simples passants, des clochards, en tuant des prostituées, voire un ami."
  • "A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder."

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  • "Americké romány"
  • "Thrillery (romány)"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Movie novels"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Horror tales"@en
  • "Horror tales"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fine books"@en
  • "Terror"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Satire"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Horror fiction"@en
  • "Horror fiction"
  • "Romány"
  • "Translations"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Thrillers (novels)"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Roman américain"

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  • "Amerikai psycho : [regény]"@hu
  • "Američki psiho"
  • "American psycho"@da
  • "American psycho"@en
  • "American psycho"@it
  • "American psycho"@es
  • "American psycho"
  • "American psycho"@pl
  • "American psycho"@sv
  • "AMERICAN PSYCHO"
  • "Amerikan sapıǧı = American psycho"
  • "Amerikanskiĭ psikhopat : [roman]"
  • "Amerikan sapiǧi"
  • "American psycho : a novel"@en
  • "American psycho : a novel"
  • "Amerikan sapığı"@tr
  • "American Psycho : Roman"
  • "American Psycho [Programmheft]"
  • "Американский психопат"
  • "American psycho a novel"@en
  • "American psycho a novel"
  • "American psycho : [screenplay]"@en
  • "American psycho : roman"@da
  • "American psycho : roman"
  • "Amerikan psyko"
  • "Amerikan Psyko : romaani"@fi
  • "Amerikanskii psikhopat"
  • "Americki psiho"
  • "Amerikan Psyko"@fi
  • "Americké psycho"
  • "Amerikanskiĭ psikhopat"
  • "American psycho : [press kit]"@en
  • "American Psycho : a novel"
  • "Amerikai psycho"
  • "Amerikai psycho"@hu
  • "American Psycho Roman"
  • "Psicosis Americana"
  • "American Psycho"@es
  • "American Psycho"
  • "American Psycho"@en
  • "Psicosis americana"@es
  • "Ameriški psiho"@sl
  • "American psycho : Roman"
  • "American psycho : ... no introduction necessary ; based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis"
  • "Amerikanikē psychōsē"

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