Patrick Bateman is twenty-six, handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. He works on Wall Street by day earning a fortune. At night he spends it in ways we cannot begin to understand. In fictionalising a character of such obvious hypocrisy Bret Easton Ellis takes us on a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmares. An explosive novel which brilliantly exposes American culture today.
'American Psycho' is a black comedy, a disturbing portrait of a madman, a subtle send-up of the blatant behaviour of the '80s - and a grotesque nightmare of murder and insanity.
