In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the
incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence
in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and
trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman
earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in
ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture
and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society
could bear to confront.