The Rules of Attraction
by Bret Easton Ellis | 
Glamorama
by Bret Easton Ellis | 
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri | 
Men Without Women
by Haruki Murakami | 
Battleborn
by Claire Vaye Watkins | 
The Question of Bruno
by Aleksandar Hemon | 
Incendiary
by Chris Cleave | 
Homeland
by Barbara Kingsolver | 
High Lonesome
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
The Angel on the Roof
by Russell Banks | 
Hotel World
by Ali Smith | 
The Safety of Objects
by A. M. Homes | 
The Dog of the Marriage
by Amy Hempel | 
The Tesseract
by Alex Garland | 
How To Get Into the Twin Palms
by Karolina Waclawiak | 
Heavy Water and Other Stories
by Martin Amis | 
Marabou Stork Nightmares
by Irvine Welsh | 
The Embassy Of Cambodia
by Zadie Smith | 
Pond
by Claire-Louise Bennett | 
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk |
In this seductive and chillingly nihilistic novel, Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose moral badlands he portrayed unforgettably in Less Than Zero. This time is the early eighties. The characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard over a car radio. They have sex with the same boys and girls and buy from the same dealers. In short, they are connected in the only way people can be in that city. Dirk sees his best friend killed in a desert car wreck, then rifles through his pockets for a last joint before the ambulance comes. Cheryl, a wannabe newscaster, chides her future stepdaughter, '??You're tan but you don't look happy.'? Jamie is a clubland carnivore with a taste for human blood. As rendered by Ellis, their interactions compose a chilling, fascinating, and outrageous descent into the abyss beneath L.A.'s gorgeous surfaces. From the Trade Paperback edition.