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| Title | : | Glamorama |
| Author | : | Bret Easton Ellis |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 546 pages |
| Published | : | March 21st 2000 by Vintage (first published 1998) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Thriller |
Bret Easton Ellis
Paperback | Pages: 546 pages Rating: 3.46 | 20124 Users | 819 Reviews
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The author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world.In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture and increases the volume exponentially.Set in 90s Manhattan, Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn't been and with people he doesn't know. He's living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another onthe eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York City history.And now it's time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.
With the same deft satire and savage wit he has brought to his other fiction, Bret Ellis gets beyond the facade and introduces us, unsparingly, to what we always feared was behind it. Glamorama shows us a shadowy looking-glass reality, the juncture where fame and fashion and terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives."
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| Original Title: | Glamorama |
| ISBN: | 0375703845 (ISBN13: 9780375703843) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Victor Ward, F. Fred Palakon, Chloe Byrnes, Bobby Hughes |
| Setting: | Manhattan, New York City, New York(United States) Paris(France) London, England |
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Ratings: 3.46 From 20124 Users | 819 ReviewsColumn About Books Glamorama
I might actually have liked this one more than "American Psycho," now that I think about it. It's actually kind of a 90's version of what AP was to the 80's, a sort of indictment/celebration(?) of materialistic/consumer culture, at least at the begining. Featuring a main character just as vapid as Patrick Bateman, Victor Ward is a male model who spends the first 200 pages going to night clubs and hanging with tons of equally vacant celebrities. Ellis's style makes this all pretty funny, but thenGlamorama is a twisted, disgusting, brilliant parody of all that was the early-1990s. This book is Valley of the Dolls meets Naked Lunch meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets James Bond. Don't think the combination is possible? Think again. Ellis demonstrates a superb understanding of cultural critique and is creative enough to satirize with seriousness and hilarity simultaneously. If you can get through the first two hundred or so pages of idiotic dialogue (another stroke of narrative
The young, rich, white elite of the American glitterati skizz through drug binges and forgotten jaunts of bored promiscuity; party after party and the cameras rolling and the paparazzis glut divines the tenor of aqueous evenings sloshing in the zeitgeist of vapid, shallow voids; then somewhere along the jitzy route the stutter of the camera is now the vicious patter of bullets and bombs and the empty American glamorama careens butter-smooth into terrorism and torture, a blitz of haywire fluxion
This is the worst book I have ever read from cover to cover. I will never read another Bret Easton Ellis book again. I'm sure he's heartbroken.
Rereading this for the fourth or fifth time, and it gets better and better. This is my bible.*** And again.
{Contains Some Spoilers}Victor Ward aka Victor Johnson is a male model living in Nineteen-nineties Manhattan. Victor is a vapid, soulless character, devoid of meaningful content, obsessed by celebrity culture and living an existence that revolves around social connections and physical appearance, abdominals being a particular obsession. Prior to moving to New York, Victor attended the illustrious Camden College, which is evidently a haunt of the elite with many of Camdens former students
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