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American Psycho
Patrick Bateman is a wealthy, image-obsessed Manhattan banker in the late 1980s who spends his days on business cards and restaurant reservations. At night he leads a secret life of extreme violence.
- First published
- 1991
- Pace
- Medium
- Length
- Medium
- Pages
- 399
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you want a cold, darkly satirical novel about status and emptiness, and can tolerate extreme content.
Skip this if you are sensitive to graphic violence and sexual cruelty, which is among the most explicit in mainstream fiction.
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