Imperial Bedrooms
02 July 2010Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
In this follow-up to his bestselling debut novel, Imperial Bedrooms sees Bret Easton Ellis reuinite with the privileged teenagers of his debauched Los Angeles, as they enter middle age.
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. Soon, he's drifting through a louche and long-familiar...
Details
02 July 2010192 pages
9780330533201Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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
