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“Brutally conceived, and effectively done....There is no doubt that Ellis retains the ability to startle and disquiet.” —Stephen Abell, The Times Literary Supplement
“Ellis remains a bold ignorer of literary boundaries. Imperial Bedrooms is but another unexpected swerve in a wonderfully weird career.” J. Robert Lennon, London Review of Books
“Enough talk of [Ellis's] literary genius, let's call him what he really is: a terrific horror writer. Imperial Bedrooms is an absolute creepfest [and] a festival of panting paranoia.” —Thomas Conner, Chicago Sun-Times
“A profoundly talented—and occasionally even brilliant—writer...Ellis has a fictional territory all his own and, heaven forbid, a mastery there.” —Jeff Simon, Buffalo News
“A page-turning read [with] a sneaky subtlety...Holding a mirror to our desires, Ellis shows us how much scarier what we think we want can be when severed from even the possibility of innocence, [employing] noirish staples to lure his reader along while subtly circling back to the older—and more frightening—theme: the dead soul.” —Michael McGregor, The Oregonian
“This is the most Chandleresque of Bret’s books, and the most deeply steeped in L.A. noir...As Dante’s hell is circular, so is [Ellis’s] L.A. Everywhere in Imperial Bedrooms there is a sense of time frozen, time collapsed and time rounding back on itself in various diabolical ways...What stays with [the reader] is not so much the concluding note of betrayal and horror as the mournfulness of the book, its eerie sense of stasis: clear skies, vacuum-sealed calm, the BlackBerry flashing on the nightstand in the middle of the night, everywhere the subliminal hum of menace.” —Donna Tartt, Amazon.com
“A page-turner...Imperial Bedrooms is a quicker, more controlled fire than its predecessor, and, like a good showman, Ellis has learned to save the best of the novel’s many tricks for last...Devastating...Old age and treachery have served Bret Easton Ellis quite well.” —Foster Kamer, The Village Voice
"Arrestingly spare...Imperial Bedrooms will leave you feeling bruised, guarded and a little nervous about noises at night...What you really notice is Ellis's newfound love of noir. He's reinvigorated and ready to get mysterious and mean...As ever, Ellis's details crystallize into elegant remoteness (and) if this is shallowness, the word needs a new definition." —Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
“It’s worth following Ellis down this rabbit hole.” —Sam Kaplan, Philadelphia City Paper
“Hypnotic...A haunting vision of disillusionment, 21st-century style.” —People Magazine
“This sequel is very much on target...[Ellis] uses the thriller framework to infuse nerve-rending unease into this look at Tinseltown mores, a dissection that also comes nicely weighted with both bleak hilarity and firsthand authorial experience.” —Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly
“Visceral and often harrowing, Ellis delivers a work that matches such career peaks as Lunar Park and the infamous American Psycho...It is remarkable how [he] has tailored the narrative in exactly the same style as the original novel, yet offering an assured and mature voice to chronicle Clay’s nightmarish return to L.A.” —Jorge Carreon, The Examiner
“Reading Ellis is a thrilling and strangely voyeuristic experience, [and] you can’t look away.” —Venus Zine
“Its dirty charms are indisputable.” —Amy Grace Lloyd, Playboy Magazine
“Ellis explores what disillusioned youth looks like twenty-five year later in this brutal sequel to Less Than Zero....The story takes on a creepy noirish bent as it barrels toward a conclusion that reveals the horror that lies at the center of a tortured soul....Though the novel's synchronicity with Zero is sublime, this also works as a stellar stand-alone.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with Less Than Zero, his extraordinarily accomplished first novel (New Yorker), successfully chronicling the frightening consequences of unmitigated hedonism within the ranks of the ethically bereft youth of 80s Los Angeles. Now, twenty-five years later, Ellis returns to those same characters: to Clay and the band of infamous teenagers whose lives weave sporadically through his. But now, some years on, they face an even greater period of disaffection: their own middle age. Clay seems to have moved on - he's become a successful screenwriter - but when he returns from New York to Los Angeles, to help cast his new movie, he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle. Blair, his former girlfriend, is now married to Trent, and their Beverly Hills parties attract excessive levels of fame and fortune, though for all that Trent is a powerful manager, his baser instincts remain: he's still a bisexual philanderer. Then there's Clay's childhood friend, Julian - who's now a recovering addict - and their old dealer, Rip - face-lifted beyond recognition and seemingly even more sinister than he was in his notorious past. Clay, too, struggles with his own demons after a meeting with a gorgeous actress determined to win a role in his movie. And with his life careening out of control, he's forced to come to terms with the deepest recesses of his character - and with his seemingly endless proclivity for betrayal. What's become of Less Than Zero's over-privileged teenagers? Bret Easton Ellis's sequel Imperial Bedrooms takes us back to LA as they face an even greater period of disaffection: their own middle age. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780330452618
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