TY - BOOK AU - Ellis,Bret Easton TI - American psycho: a novel T2 - Vintage contemporaries SN - 0679735771 (pbk.) : AV - PS3555.L5937 A8 1991 U1 - 813.54 20 PY - 1991/// CY - New York PB - Vintage Books KW - Women KW - Crimes against KW - Fiction KW - Serial murderers KW - Psychopaths KW - Rapists KW - Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) KW - Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcsh KW - Horror tales KW - gsafd N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random056/90010247.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random047/90010247.html ER -