{"product_id":"american-psycho-by-bret-easton-ellis","title":"'American Psycho' by Bret Easton Ellis","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"300\" data-end=\"812\"\u003eThe book that follows the immaculate suit, perfect body, expensive restaurants, correct business card and utterly rotten interior of Patrick Bateman.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"300\" data-end=\"812\"\u003eSet in the polished corporate hell of late-1980s Manhattan, the novel turns consumer culture, masculine performance, wealth, status anxiety, and sexual violence into a deadpan nightmare of surfaces. Everything is brand, menu, outfit, transaction, repetition — and somewhere inside all that lacquer, a person may or may not still exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"814\" data-end=\"1273\"\u003eNotorious on publication and still uncomfortable to read, \u003cem data-start=\"872\" data-end=\"889\"\u003eAmerican Psycho\u003c\/em\u003e is less a simple serial-killer novel than a cold, satirical autopsy of capitalism’s ideal subject: beautiful, empty, competitive, endlessly consuming, and capable of anything because nothing means anything. A key work of late twentieth-century American fiction for readers interested in transgression, satire, horror, postmodernism, moral panic, and the psychosis of expensive taste.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1275\" data-end=\"1447\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVintage paperback, 1991. Good used condition with some rubbing, edge wear and light creasing to covers; pages age-toned but clean and intact.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45347580149843,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-06-05T135329.616.png?v=1780631789","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/american-psycho-by-bret-easton-ellis","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}