American Psycho

American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel . . . The novelist's function is to keep a running tag on the progress of the culture; and he's done it brilliantly . . . A seminal bookFay Weldon, Washington Post

Serious, clever and shatteringly effectiveSunday Times

For its savagely coherent picture of a society lethally addicted to blandness, it should be judged by the highest standardsJohn Walsh, Sunday Times

That the book's contents are shocking is downright undeniable, but just as Bonfire of the Vanities exposed the corruption and greed engendered in eighties politics and high living, American Psycho examines the mindless preoccupations of the nineties preppy generationTime Out