The modern classic the basis of a Broadway musical and major motion picture from Lion's Gate
Films starring Christian Bale Chloe Sevigny Jared Leto and Reese Witherspoon and directed
by Mary Harron. 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.
