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
