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Las memorias del creador de American Psycho: después de una década regresa el autor más controvertido de los 90 con su libro más polémico. «Hemos entrado en una peligrosa suerte de totalitarismo que en realidad aborrece la libre expresión y castiga a la gente por mostrarse tal cual es.» Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis creó a Patrick Bateman, el célebre ejecutivo de Wall Street que, en la obra maestra American Psycho, mejor describió los delirios de toda una época. Después de una brillante carrera novelística, el enfant terrible de la literatura norteamericana vuelve a la carga con su aclamado primer libro de no ficción: una autobiografía que recorre su infancia, su polémica carrera y las referencias literarias, cinematográficas y de la cultura popular de los setenta y los ochenta que marcaron su vida. Pero Bret Easton Ellis no se queda en el pasado, y lleva a cabo un análisis perspicaz y totalmente libre de autocensura de la sociedad del presente, preguntándose qué demonios ha ocurrido en estas últimas cuatro décadas. Blanco es una defensa del derecho a la libertad de expresión y una crítica a la dictadura del neopuritanismo, a la hipersensibilidad millennial y a lo políticamente correcto en la era de las redes sociales. Bret Easton Ellis reivindica el humor y la sátira como herramientas de provocación y, por encima de todo, reclama una libertad que se desvanece. Las agudas reflexiones que pone sobre la mesa vienen a revolucionar la actualidad con una honestidad provocadora y corrosiva. Críticas: «Ellis irradia el mismo espíritu joven de siempre: diversión irreverente, una fina ironía y una curiosidad artística incansable. Es la encarnación de cómo todo y nada ha cambiado entre el mundo predigital de 1985 y la actualidad.» Lauren Christensen, The New York Times «Bret Easton Ellis no pierde el punch de enfant terrible.» Laura Fernández, El País «Unas páginas magníficas.» Michel Guerrin, Le Monde «La mejor descripción de Blanco es decir que se trata de una provocación, aunque es mucho más que eso, si te molestas en leerlo.» Rachel Cooke, The Guardian «Un golpe a la corrección política de nuestro tiempo y una gran muestra de literatura.» Hannah Lühmann, Welt am Sonntag «Un autoretrato lleno de revelaciones.» Nelly Kaprièlian, Les Inrockuptibles «Blancodemuestra que el autor no ha perdido su garra, talento y singularidad.» Alexandre Fillon, Sud Ouest «Alegremente provocadora [...] un extenso alarido, con memoria y análisis sociopolítico a partes iguales, que te enfurecerá o deleitará [...] Ellis critica de manera feroz los dictados de lo políticamente correcto.» Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post «El mundo que describe Ellis es familiar y distópico a la vez: un sistema que nos condena a moderar nuestra imagen como solo las celebridades lo hacían en otro tiempo, a convertirnos en un 'robot virtuoso' que censura sus emociones y sus opiniones para reducirlas al triste denominador común del 'like'.» Adrienne Boutang, Le Monde «Un antídoto al discurso de la virtud.» Mathieu Laine, Le Figaro «Uno de los más grandes novelistas americanos, autor de libros visionarios sobre nuestra época.» Le Monde «Un ensayo brillante contra lo políticamente correcto.» Le Figaro Littéraire. «Controvertido, Ellis se entrega a una defensa de la libertad de expresión.» Le Journal du Dimanche
Bret Easton Ellis (Author), Carlos Canales (Narrator)
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In Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis shows us a shadowy looking-glass world, the juncture where fame and fashion, terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives. The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn't been and with people he doesn't know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history, he's living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. Now it's time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind. "Does for the cold, minimal '90s what American Psycho did for the Wall Street greed of the '80s. You name it, he manages to get it all in." VOGUE
Bret Easton Ellis (Author), Jonathan Davis (Narrator)
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He became a bestselling novelist while still in college, immediately famous and wealthy. He watched his insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box. He was lost in a haze of booze, drugs and vilification. Then he was given a second chance. This is the life of Bret Easton Ellis, the author and subject of this remarkable novel. Confounding one expectation after another, Lunar Park is equally hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking. It's the most original novel of an extraordinary career - and best of all: it all happened, every word is true. "Great emotional complexity and depth . . . it's a very interesting ride with an always interesting novelist - and, as such, is one worth taking." THE TIMES
Bret Easton Ellis (Author), James Van Der Beek (Narrator)
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Incisive, controversial and startlingly funny, The Rules of Attraction examines a group of affluent students at a small, self-consciously bohemian, liberal-arts college on America's East Coast. Lauren, who changes the man in her bed even more often than she changes course, is dating Victor but sleeping with Sean. Sean - cool, ambivalent and deeply cynical - might be in love with Lauren, but he's not going to let that stop him from bedding Paul. Paul, as shrewd as he is passionate, is Lauren's ex-lover and the final point in this curious triangle. From the author of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis's The Rules of Attraction is a breathtaking tale of sex, expectation, desire and frustration. 'Inspired. A wonderfully comic novel.' GORE VIDAL
Bret Easton Ellis (Author), Brian Hutchison, Jennifer O'Donnell, John Skelley, Luis Moreno, Morgan Hallett (Narrator)
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Candid, fearless and provocative - the author of American Psycho on who he is and what he thinks is wrong with the world today. Bret Easton Ellis is most famous for his era-defining novel American Psycho and its terrifying anti-hero, Patrick Bateman. With that book, and many times since, Ellis proved himself to be one of the world's most fearless and clear-sighted observers of society - the glittering surface and the darkness beneath. In White, his first work of non-fiction, Ellis offers a wide-ranging exploration of what the hell is going on right now. He tells personal stories from his own life. He writes with razor-sharp precision about the music, movies, books and TV he loves and hates. He examines the ways our culture, politics and relationships have changed over the last four decades. He talks about social media, Hollywood celebrities and Donald Trump. Ellis considers conflicting positions without flinching and adheres to no status quo. His forthright views are powered by a fervent belief in artistic freedom and freedom of speech. Candid, funny, entertaining and blisteringly honest, he offers opinions that are impossible to ignore and certain to provoke. What he values above all is the truth. 'The culture at large seemed to encourage discourse,' he writes, 'but what it really wanted to do was shut down the individual.' Bret Easton Ellis will not be shut down.
Bret Easton Ellis (Author), Bret Easton Ellis (Narrator)
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A disturbing portrayal of privileged and immoral LA teenagers, Less Than Zero is a cult classic. In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, Less Than Zero - narrated by Clay, an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas - is a fierce coming-of-age story, justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth, its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity, and its author's refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour. "The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation." USA TODAY
Bret Easton Ellis (Author), Davis Brooks (Narrator)
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Bret Easton Ellis's debut, Less Than Zero, is one of the signal novels of the last thirty years, and he now follows those infamous teenagers into an even more desperate middle age. Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle. Blair, his former girlfriend, is married to Trent, an influential manager who's still a bisexual philanderer, and their Beverly Hills parties attract various levels of fame, fortune and power. Then there's Clay's childhood friend Julian, a recovering addict, and their old dealer, Rip, face-lifted beyond recognition and seemingly even more sinister than in his notorious past. But Clay's own demons emerge once he meets a gorgeous young actress determined to win a role in his movie. And when his life careens completely out of control, he has no choice but to plumb the darkest recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal. A genuine literary event.
Bret Easton Ellis (Author), Andrew McCarthy (Narrator)
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Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street. He is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. And he is taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare...
Bret Easton Ellis (Author), Nick Landrum (Narrator)
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Imagine becoming a best-selling novelist, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, while after American Psycho your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze, and drugs. Then imagine having a second chance ten years later, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given, with a wife, children, and suburban sobriety-only to watch this new life shatter beyond recognition in a matter of days. At a fateful Halloween party he glimpses a disturbing (fictional) character driving a car identical to his late father's, his stepdaughter's doll violently "malfunctions," and their house undergoes bizarre transformations both within and without. Connecting these aberrations to graver events-a series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his son's age-Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace even as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania. Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting horror, both psychological and supernatural, toward an astonishing resolution-about love and loss, fathers and sons-in what is surely the most powerfully original and deeply moving novel of an extraordinary career.
Bret Easton Ellis (Author), James Van Der Beek (Narrator)
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