From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and
Less Than Zero comes a nihilistic novel set in the early eighties that
portrays a chilling descent into the abyss beneath L.A.'s gorgeous
surfaces. - "Skillfully accomplishes its goal of depicting a modern
moral wasteland.... Arguably Ellis's best." --The Boston Globe
The basis of the major motion picture starring Billy Bob Thornton, Kim
Basinger and Mickey Rourke, The Informers is a seductive and chillingly
nihilistic novel, in which Bret Easton Ellis, returns to Los Angeles,
the city whose moral badlands he portrayed so unforgettably in *Less
Than Zero.
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This time is the early eighties. The characters go to the same schools
and eat at the same restaurants. Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as
those of DJs heard over a car radio. They have sex with the same boys
and girls and buy from the same dealers. In short, they are connected in
the only way people can be in that city.
Dirk sees his best friend killed in a desert car wreck, then rifles
through his pockets for a last joint before the ambulance comes. Cheryl,
a wannabe newscaster, chides her future stepdaughter, "You're tan but
you don't look happy." Jamie is a clubland carnivore with a taste for
human blood.
Look for Bret Easton Ellis's new novel, The Shards!
