Description
Patrick Bateman spends his days trading currency and comparing business cards on Wall Street, and his nights on something considerably darker. Bret Easton Ellis narrates the novel entirely through Bateman’s own voice, which is exactly why so little of what he says can be trusted — the people around him dismiss his confessions as jokes even as the killings escalate. Set in Manhattan in the late 1980s, American Psycho reads as much as a satire of a culture obsessed with wealth, status, and surface as it does a horror novel, and a detective sniffing around Bateman’s circle never quite closes in.
