After a long break from writing, “American Psycho” author Bret Easton Ellis returns with a masterpiece full of sex and violence.
We recommend tuning in to this book. The characters in him are also constantly preparing for something: sex is often preceded by a few laps in the garden pool, which shimmers turquoise in the night. The school day starts with half a tablet of Quaalude, which packs the spirit in cotton candy. And the killing begins with messages left on the answering machine at night, a quiet breathing.
Anyone who opens the new novel by Bret Easton Ellis should choose a few songs from the early 80s as the overture, the time when “The Shards” is set. Something from Ultravox, Devo, Blondie, The Cure, the Psychedelic Furs. New wave music warming like neon lights.