![]() The nominal plot of ''Glamorama'' traces the disintegration of a young, gorgeous, ''semi-famous'' model-cum-club-promoterĬalled Victor Ward, a United States senator's son who's so ennui- and Xanax-ridden that he doesn't realize he's got involved in a group of international model-terrorists until it's too late. Intent, treated pretty much the same theme and occasionally the same characters. types his subsequent fictions have, with increasingly heavy-handed satirical ![]() Clearly, Ellis's authorial vision has grown broader and more inclusive over the past decade.Įllis made his name in 1985 with the cult best seller ''Less Than Zero,'' a short, moodily effective morality tale about despair among rich, unhappy young L.A. Who tortures and dismembers beautiful young women, whereas ''Glamorama,'' as anyone can see, is a bloated, stultifyingly repetitive, overhyped book about an entire gang of fabulously good-looking and expensivelyĭressed sociopaths who torture and dismember both women and men - and lots of them. ''American Psycho,'' after all, was a bloated, stultifyingly repetitive, overhyped novel about a fabulously good-looking and expensively dressed Wall Street sociopath T's a mystery to me why some people are complaining that Bret Easton Ellis's latest novel is nothing more than a recycling of his controversially graphic ![]() ![]() Bret Easton Ellis's characters are still obsessed with appearance, even more so. ![]()
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