Ellis, Bret Easton

Less than zero by Bret Easton Ellis ( Book )
75 editions published between 1985 and 2011 in 15 languages and held by 1,836 libraries worldwide
Returning to Los Angeles from his Eastern college for a Christmas vacation in the early 1980s, Clay "reenters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine ... A raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation."--Back cover, Vintage Contemporaries ed. (1998).

Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis ( Book )
64 editions published between 2005 and 2011 in 15 languages and held by 1,832 libraries worldwide
A somewhat autobiographical novel about the life of the author, with some things true, other things exagerrated and other things completely fictitious.

American psycho : a novel by Bret Easton Ellis ( Book )
155 editions published between 1991 and 2011 in 21 languages and held by 1,782 libraries worldwide
In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films, released Spring 2000, starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day, while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

Imperial bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis ( Book )
24 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 1,420 libraries worldwide
Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle that will leave him no choice but to plumb the darkest recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal.

Glamorama : a novel by Bret Easton Ellis ( Book )
75 editions published between 1996 and 2011 in 16 languages and held by 1,309 libraries worldwide
Action man Victor Ward, owner of a New York nightclub, is hired by a man to fly to London and find his missing daughter. The assignment leads Ward to an international terrorist ring, run by a fashion model.

The informers by Bret Easton Ellis ( Book )
53 editions published between 1994 and 2010 in 10 languages and held by 1,129 libraries worldwide
A collection of stories on the dream factory that is Los Angeles and the nasty people it produces. In The Secrets of Summer, a man picks up women in bars with promises of cocaine and when they are stoned drinks their blood. By the author of American Psycho.

The rules of attraction by Bret Easton Ellis ( Book )
54 editions published between 1987 and 2011 in 14 languages and held by 1,120 libraries worldwide
Three students at a small New England college enter a romantic triangle.

The informers ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1997 and 2009 in English and Japanese and held by 443 libraries worldwide
Los Angeles, 1980s. Centers on an array of characters who represent both the top of the heap - a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster - and the very bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Connecting the intertwining strands are a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs and one another with total abandon. They don't realizing that they are dancing on the edge of a volcano.

The rules of attraction ( Visual )
18 editions published between 1988 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 368 libraries worldwide
Sean is a student at a well-respected private college on the East Coast. Sean is attracted to Lauren, while Lauren is infatuated with Victor. Lauren's empty-headed roommate Lara is also attracted to Victor, while he has no qualms about being involved with both. Lauren used to date Paul, but Paul, a bisexual, currently lusts after Sean. Meanwhile, friendly campus drug dealer Rupert finds a ready market for cocaine among his classmates; Sean, a user, finds himself financially embarrassed and begins dealing drugs to help pay off his debts, while leading Paul on for his ready supply of marijuana.

American psycho ( Visual )
27 editions published between 1992 and 2010 in 6 languages and held by 178 libraries worldwide
A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.