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1998. Hardback. Acceptable. 1st edition / 1st printing. Acceptable condition. No dust cover. There are scuffs to the edges of the cover and a sticker on the back. There is a tear along the spine at the title page and the binding visible, but with everything secure, and with the same also at the spine in the inside back cover. There are marks on page edges but otherwise in good condition.
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About this book
American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis that follows the life of Patrick Bateman, a wealthy and successful investment banker in New York City during the late 1980s. As Bateman navigates his professional and social life, he also harbors a secret life as a sadistic serial killer. The novel is a commentary on the emptiness and depravity of the materialistic culture of the time and the alienation and disconnection that can result from it. The graphic and disturbing descriptions of Bateman's violent acts serve to highlight the depths of his psychological disturbance and the true horror of his actions.
A film adaptation was released in 2000 starring Christian Bale with Willem Dafoe and Reese Witherspoon in supporting roles.
Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. Ellis received 13 death threats before the novel was even published. It was named the 53rd most banned and challenged book from 1990-1999 by the American Library Association.
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ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Miserables on its side blocking his view, but Price who is with Pierce & Pierce and twenty-six doesn't seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn up the radio, "Be My Baby" on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so.
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The first American Psycho edition was published in 1991 (Vintage Contemporaries, New York). The original price was $15 US. Vintage Books purchased the rights to the novel after Simon & Schuster withdrew from the project because of "aesthetic differences over what critics had termed its violent and women-hating content." American Psycho was not published in hardcover in the United States until 2012 when a limited hardcover edition was published by Centipede Press.
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- Title American Psycho
- Author Ellis, Bret Easton
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 416
- Publisher Picador, London
- Date 1998
- ISBN 9780330372480
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1998. Hardback. Good. 1st Edition / 1st Printing. There are some scuffs to the edges and corners of the dust cover with a 6mm tear to the bottom corner of the back, and fading to the spine art. There are marks on the page edges but otherwise in very good condition with pages crisp and clean.
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Picador, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectable - Good Condition/Good. Good/Good+ 2nd printing 1st ed 1998 Picador hardback edition, unclipped DJ with correct price of £14.99, number string 2 to 9. Some page tanning and light foxing to page edges, small crease to front flap of DJ, surface water stain to outer top edge of front end-paper pages, a little corner bumping and mild surface scuff top front corner of jacket spine, tight and unmarked. Size: 5.12 x 1.46 x 7.76 inches. 416 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction Books; ISBN: 0330372483. ISBN/EAN: 9780330372480. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 090836.. 9780330372480
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Picador, London, United Kingdom, 1998. 2nd print First Edition. Hardback. Collectable - Very Good Condition/Near Fine. Near Fine/Near Fine 2nd impression 1st ed 1998 Picador hardback, unclipped DJ, and number string 2 to 9. Light vertical crease to rearward part of jacket spine, a little corner pushing to boards otherwise very well-preserved throughout, tight and unmarked, pages bright. I1 Size: 130\nx 197\nx 37mm. 416 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction Books; ISBN: 0330372483. ISBN/EAN: 9780330372480. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 091321.. 9780330372480
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Picador, London, United Kingdom, 1998. 2nd print First Edition. Hardback. Collectable - Very Good Condition/Near Fine. Near Fine/Near Fine 2nd impression 1st ed 1998 Picador hardback, unclipped DJ, and number string 2 to 9. A little toning to pages, a little corner and spine-end pushing to boards otherwise very well-preserved throughout, tight and unmarked, pages bright. I1 Size: 130\nx 197\nx 37mm. 416 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction Books; ISBN: 0330372483. ISBN/EAN: 9780330372480. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 091480.. 9780330372480
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New York: Vintage Books, 1991. First edition. Near fine.. First printing (a paperback original) of what will always be Bret Easton Ellis's best book - whether he likes it or not. Of its time, before its time, out of time: an unmerciful portrait of an empty husk with the face of a man. Patrick Bateman, blood-soaked hero-worshipper of Donald Trump and archetypal son of the '80s, lives on in every status-conscious grasper after money and position, in every unfortunate soul consumed by appearances and convinced that brand, taste, and ethics are one and the same. A genuinely amusing social satire before the murders begin, AMERICAN PSYCHO is one of the rare and lucky modern classics to get the film adaptation it deserved, if not the treatment its author thought he wanted. Director Mary Harron pulled jewel-like representative set pieces out of the text's cascades of detail, not reinterpreting Ellis's message so much as reframing it with an assured feminist hand, drawing the eye to what was always there.…
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Picador Publishing, 1998. 1. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; First Printing; Number line: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and text pages are all clean and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.2 lbs; Red dust jacket with title in black and white lettering; 1998, Picador Publishing; 416 pages; "American Psycho," by Bret Easton Ellis.
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