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Cover of “American Psycho” by Bret Easton Ellis

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis · 1991

399 pages

Patrick Bateman is a wealthy Wall Street banker with a taste for designer labels, fine dining and status, and a private life of extreme violence. His narration moves between expensive restaurants and scenes of cruelty, refusing to say how much of either is real.

Tropes

Unreliable Narrator, Villain Protagonist, Psychological Thriller, Satire, Body Horror

Content warnings: sexual violence

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