A statue on the Buckley campus is defaced, festooned with the decapitated heads of fish from the school koi pond.
Its protagonist is “Bret,” a senior at The Buckley School, who’s writing something called “Less Than Zero” - Ellis’ real name, high school and audacious debut, of course. Against this backdrop of parties and privilege, a serial killer called The Trawler is stalking Los Angeles. The book is set in 1980s Los Angeles, all BMW sedans and Wayfarer sunglasses, New Wave music and popped collars.
“The Shards” is Ellis’ latest novel, what he calls a “fictional memoir” of his last year in high school. And “The Informers” includes murder and suicide, castration and corpse mutilation, and the drinking of blood during sex. About the only thing that excites his disaffected characters in “Less Than Zero” is a snuff film “Glamorama” includes a gang of models turned terrorists. It was certainly not the author’s only brush with the macabre. His notorious novel “American Psycho” features Patrick Bateman, one of literature’s most memorable serial killers, and was famously cancelled by Simon & Schuster just months before it was due to be sent to the printers, citing “aesthetic differences over what critics had termed its violent and women-hating content.”
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