The Shards
Bret Easton Ellis
£10.99
Mr B's review
One of literature’s great provocateurs returns with this sensational coming-of-age novel about sex, violence and privilege in California. A semi-fictional version of Bret looks back on his final year at Buckley College in LA – a time of drugs and excess, sexual awakening and late 80s nihilism. And all the while a maniacal serial killer stalks the San Fernando Valley… Visceral, indulgent and unique – in other words, classic Bret Easton Ellis.
Publisher Review
‘The Shards isn’t just Ellis’s strongest novel since the 90s, it’s a full-spectrum triumph, incorporating and subverting everything he’s done before and giving us, if we follow the book’s ingenious, gleefully self-aware conceit, nothing less than the Ellis origin story’ – Sam Byers, Guardian ‘The Shards reads like a Karl Ove Knausgard novel spliced with a Dario Argento movie … an inspired 1980s fever dream of a book, nostalgic and lustful and ecstatic, as well as a loving act of pop-cultural conservation … what a charm to find that The Shards is as vital as anything he’s ever written – and it’s the one all the other BEE novels are about’ – Rob Doyle, Observer ‘A tale of sexed-up, drug-guzzling privileged high school students in the early 1980s …Glossy and grotesque’ – The Times ‘It’s Ellis’s definitive work: his own origin story’ David Sexton, Sunday Times ‘If you like Bret Easton Ellis novels you’ll love this … queasily gripping, strikingly heartfelt, and a whole lot of fun’ – Alex Bilmes, Esquire
‘The author of American Psycho returns in characteristic, high-octane, disturbing style … Welcome back, Mr Easton Ellis’ – Harper’s Bazaar
‘A thrilling fusion of classic crime noir, pop culture porn and new wave gloss,The Shards is the pinnacle of Bret Easton Ellis’ creative career and everything we have come to hope, expect and fear from him’ – Benjamin Myers
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