Ellis, Bret Easton. <br/><br/>
American psycho :  a novel / 
by Bret Easton Ellis. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Vintage Books,  c1991. 
 - 399 p. ;  21 cm. 
 - Vintage contemporaries .
<br/><br/>American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan businessman. The Observer notes that while "some countries [deem it] so potentially disturbing that it can only be sold shrink-wrapped", "critics rave about it" and "academics revel in its transgressive and postmodern qualities 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0679735771 (pbk.) :  $11.00 (CAN. $15.00) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>90010247  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Crimes against--Fiction.<br/>Serial murderers--Fiction.<br/>Psychopaths--Fiction.<br/>Rapists--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.<br/>Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Psychological fiction.<br/>Horror tales.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3555.L5937  / A8 1991 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813.54