The Informers

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"A post-modern Winesburg, Ohio____Ellis's cleverness is on full
display He has a keen ear for dialogue, a sharp eye for the morál bankruptcy of modern life, and a vivid imagination"
—San Francisco Chronicle
n this seductive and chillingly nihilistic new book, Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose morál badlands he portrayed unforgettably in Less Than Zero. The 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 buf you don't look happy."... Tovább

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F i c t i o n
"A post-modern Winesburg, Ohio____Ellis's cleverness is on full
display He has a keen ear for dialogue, a sharp eye for the morál bankruptcy of modern life, and a vivid imagination"
—San Francisco Chronicle
n this seductive and chillingly nihilistic new book, Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose morál badlands he portrayed unforgettably in Less Than Zero. The 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 buf you don't look happy." Jamie is a clubland carnivore with a taste for humán blood. As rendered by Ellis, their interactions compose a chilling, fascinating, and outrageous descent into the abyss beneath L.A.'s gorgeous surfaces.
" The Informers is spare, austere, elegantly designed, teliing in detail, coolly ferocious, sardonic in its humor; every vestige of authorial sentiment is expunged____Truly unsettling."
—The New York Times Book Review
"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."
—Carolyn See, Washington Post Vissza