Imperial Bedrooms Book

Clay is a successful screenwriter middle-aged and disaffected; he's in LA to cast his new movie. However this trip is anything other than professional and he's soon drifting through a louche and long-familiar circle - a world largely populated by the band of infamous teenagers first introduced in "Less Than Zero". But his debauched reverie is about to be interrupted by a violent plot for revenge and Clay's seemingly endless proclivity for betrayal and exploitation looks set to land him somewhere darker and more ominous than ever before. Reviews: "His tautest most compulsively readable work since "American Psycho". A sequel to "Less Than Zero" it imagines what became of that book's group of over-privileged dead-eyed kids as forty-year-olds". (Hari Kunzru). "A murder mystery - a woozy paranoid hallucinatory version of LA noir". ("Sunday Times). "Brilliantly written and coolly self-aware...Here as in "Less Than Zero" Ellis is plumbing the depths of human nature exposing it at its worst". ("Observer"). "The novel is a kind of modern noir and as in Chandler the form's accepted master atmosphere is king. Paranoia prevails". ("Independent on Sunday").

Imperial Bedrooms : Paperback : Pan Macmillan : 9780330452618 : 0330452614 : 01 Apr 2011 : What's become of Less Than Zero's over-privileged teenagers? Bret Easton Ellis's sequel Imperial Bedrooms takes us back to LA as they face an even greater period of disaffection: their own middle age.

'His tautest most compulsively readable work since American Psycho. A sequel to Less Than Zero it imagines what became of that book's group of over-privileged dead-eyed kids as forty-year-olds' Hari Kunzru Observer