A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city. His first novel in 13 years,The Shards is Bret Easton Ellis at his inimitable best.
LA,1981. Buckley College in heat. 17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright,handsome,charismatic,and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends,even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equalled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with The Trawler,a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends,taunting them with grotesque threats and horrific,sharply local acts of violence.
Can he trust his friends - or his own mind - to make sense of the danger they appear to be in Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires,buffeted by unhealthy fixations,Bret spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between The Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision.
Gripping,sly,suspenseful,deeply haunting and often darkly funny,The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret's life at 17 - sex and jealousy,obsession and murderous rage.
Publisher: Swift PressISBN: 9781800752320Dimensions: 198 x 135 mm
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'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,The 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,The Observer
Bret Easton Ellis
Best known for his 1991 novel American Psycho,Bret Easton Ellis is a bestselling American author.
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