Dirk sees his best friend killed in a desert car wreck, then rifles through his pockets for a last joint before the ambulance comes. Jamie is a clubland carnivore with a taste for human blood. All the characters are connected in the only way people can be in LA - suffering from nothing less than the death of the soul.
Reviews
"Coolly ferocious. . . . Truly unsettling." --"The New York Times Book Review" "Skillfully accomplishes its goal of depicting a modern moral wasteland. . . . Arguably Ellis's best." --"The Boston Globe" "Sparkles with a disturbing mix of humor and ultraviolence." --"Detroit Free Press" "Ellis . . . has a keen eye for dialogue, a sharp eye for the moral bankruptcy of modern life, and a vivid imagination."" " --"San Franciscop Chronicle" "Bret Easton Ellis. . . is an extremely traditional and very serious American novelist. He is the model of literary filial piety, counting among his parents Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion." --The Washington Post
Author description
Bret Easton Ellis is the author of five novels and a collection of stories, which have been translated into twenty-seven languages. He divides his time between Los Angeles and New York.