Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries)
 

Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Bret Easton Ellis

Glamorama is a satirical mass-murder opus more ambitious than Bret Easton Ellis's 1990 American Psycho. It starts as a spritz-of-consciousness romp about kid-club entrepreneur Victor Ward, "the It boy of the moment," an actor-model up for Flatliners II. Ellis has perfect pitch for glam-speak, and he gives nightlife the fizz, pace, and shimmer it lacks in drab reality. Anyone could cite... (read more)

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muque and shylock tomes
  • Rated 4 stars

Wow! This book is so cinematic, I can't believe no one has made a move of it. Sexy in a wonderfully naughty way, it tells the tale of a mindlessly idiotic male model caught up in a nightmare of terror. Funny and frightening at the same time.

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jp
  • Rated 2 stars

reminded me that talented people aren't perfect.

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  • Rated 3.58 stars
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  • Rated 3.5 stars
 

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