{"product_id":"imperial-bedrooms-von-bret-easton-ellis","title":"Imperial Bedrooms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with \u003ci\u003eLess Than Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, his 'extraordinarily accomplished first novel' (\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e). Twenty-five years later, he returns to those same characters - to Clay and the band of infamous teenagers whose lives weave sporadically through his - but now they face an even greater period of disaffection: their own middle age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Clay seems to have moved on - he's become a successful screenwriter - but when he returns from New York to Los Angeles, to help cast his new movie, he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle. Only this time, it's darker and more ominous than ever before. Clay's seemingly endless proclivity for betrayal and exploitation finds him connected with Kelly Montrose, a producer whose gruesomely violent death is suddenly very much the talk of the town. And worse still, someone seems to be following him, stalking him even.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A murder mystery - a woozy, paranoid, hallucinatory version of LA noir' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Easton Ellis adds the playful self-advertisements of Philip Roth to the ambiguously complicit social reportage of F. Scott Fitzgerald. \u003ci\u003eImperial Bedrooms\u003c\/i\u003e ranks with his best exercises in the latter register, teeming with sharp details of a narcissistic generation' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Brilliantly written and coolly self-aware . . . has a thriller's pace and structure . . . Here, as in \u003ci\u003eLess Than Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, Ellis is plumbing the depths of human nature, exposing it at its worst.' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'The novel is a kind of modern noir and, as in Chandler, the form's accepted master, atmosphere is king. Paranoia prevails' \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780330452618\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9780330452618","offer_id":58268032696645,"sku":"9780330452618","price":11.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/762f7a8f-5f35-441f-9e5e-8305ad9bcfe5.jpg?v=1782101080","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/imperial-bedrooms-von-bret-easton-ellis","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}