![]() ![]() Bateman makes little attempt to justify his actions, merely claiming that "this is the way the world-my world-moves". The novel contains little actual plot, and consists of extended descriptions of exclusive restaurants, designer clothes, TV shows and the minutiae of Bateman's vacuous world, relieved only by clinically described scenes of torture and mutilation which are not for the faint-hearted. However, Bateman also has a darker side he is a psychopathic serial killer, with a penchant for torturing and sexually abusing young women before killing them in the most gruesome and explicit fashion. Bateman is a handsome 26-year-old Wall Street yuppie, who spends his days listening to Whitney Houston and working out which exclusive restaurant to eat in and what clothes to wear in a dizzying parody of 1980s consumerism run mad. So begins a hellish descent into the world of Patrick Bateman, the novel's protagonist. ![]() ![]() The novel opens with a sign scrawled above a New York subway station: "Abandon hope all ye who enter". American Psycho deserves its controversy. Brett Easton Ellis established a reputation as the enfant terrible of American fiction in the 1980s with his controversial novel Less than Zero, but with the publication of American Psycho he became established as one of the most notorious and reviled novelists currently writing. ![]()
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