American Psycho

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