Murder Is Our Peculiar Pastime: Fifty Notable American Crime Novels: 17-18
BY MARTIN KICH This one is timely in a very macabre way: Ellis, Bret Easton. American Psycho. New York: Knopf, 1991. Brett Easton Ellis became an almost instant literary celebrity when his first novel, Less than Zero (1985), sold millions of copies and was adapted to a film released by Twentieth-Century Fox. Grouped with novelists…