Bret Easton Ellis

Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries)

a novel

Glamorama

Sarah Escorsa

What can I say about this book? At first I really enjoyed Ellis' writing style and the *very* unlikable characters but when nothing had happened after about 150 pages I started feeling really annoyed. The book just seemed to be all about name-dropping, a never-ending list of long-lost TV celebrities and the like... Maybe I read this book 10 years too late? I don't know, the whole thing just felt outdated:( The truth is I simply couldn't finish it and never got to the "very violent" scenes I read about in other reviews...

Oliver Bernhard

Vincent de Widt

Glamorama.

Martha F.

kaylee 

D VA

The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn’t been and with people he doesn’t know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history, he’s living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. Now it’s time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind. 'Does for the cold, minimal '90s what American Psycho did for the Wall Street greed of the '80s. You name it, he manages to get it all in’ Vogue 'Gets under the skin of our celebrity culture in a way that is both illuminating and frightening' Daily Telegraph 'A Bonfire of the Vanities? Glamorama is more like a Semtex attack on our superficialities' Face ‘An epic that takes his blank surrealism into a realm equalled only by DeLillo’ Arena ‘A master stylist with hideously interesting new-fangled manners and the heart of an old-fashioned moralist’ Observer ‘Brilliant . . . He is fast becoming a writer of real American genius’ GQ 'An American masterpiece' Scotland on Sunday

Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries)

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