American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan investment banker. Alison Kelly of The Observer notes that while "some countries [deem it] so potentially disturbing that it can only be sold shrink-wrapped", "critics rave about it" and "academics revel in its transgressive and postmodern qualities".
Genres
- Gothic & Horror
- Literary Fiction
- capitalism
- postmodernism
- id
- schizophrenia
- consumerism
- stream of consciousness
- cocaine
- pop music
- unreliable narrators
- vanity
- sadism
- rape
- torture
- mutilation
- cannibalism
- SWAT teams
- necrophilia
- investment bankers
- psychological fiction
- horror tales
- Fiction
- Rapists
- Serial murderers in fiction
- Women in fiction
- Crimes against Women
- Rapists in fiction
- Novela estadounidense
- Serial murderers
- Psychopaths
- Cuentos de terror
- Psychopaths in fiction
- Women
- Crimes against
- Violence
- Serial murders
- Fiction, psychological
- Bateman, pat (fictitious character), fiction
- New york (n.y.), fiction
- Samfundssatire
- Sex
- Vold
- Psykologisk thriller
- Yuppier
- Women--crimes against
- Women--crimes against--fiction
- Serial murderers--fiction
- Psychopaths--fiction
- Rapists--fiction
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