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	Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis: Reviews
		To those in the Ellis bloc, I can say this is his best novel and with it he achieves artistic and emotional peaks I never suspected he would attempt, let alone reach.
		Ellis delivers for his fans and for the new guard of Palahniuk readers who will appreciate his straightforward prose and twisting plot lines.
		Ellis manages some significant achievement in Lunar Park, both in his generation-removed observations on the latest youth soul-sickness, and in his obvious pining for elusive familial security.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/ellisbreteaston/lunarpark (1065 words)

	Interview with Bret Easton Ellis
		Bret Easton Ellis is the author of four controversial novels including Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, and The Informers.
		Bret Easton Ellis: It was written over a ten year period of time.
		BEE: It's interesting, this idea of being so overwhelmingly influenced by pop culture, and yet, in your writing, not that influenced by events in your life.
	www.altx.com /interviews/bret.easton.ellis.html (1694 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Lunar Park: Books: Bret Easton Ellis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The `Bret Easton Ellis' of this story is a socially anxious paradigm of diaphanous proportions (paranoid, confused, lost in space and time, a macabre reflection of a man who reacts but cannot think); this `Mr Ellis' osmotically absorbing elements of the `writer' and concentrating them in a shifted universe of supernatural dimensions.
		Ellis lures the reader into this rather conventional beginning (the David Copperfield type beginning where he introduces himself and gives the reader his biography) and then quickly turns what appears to be a sort of father-son drama in the suburbs with lots of hugs, deep conversations, and rubbish metaphors, into something completely different.
		Ellis has covered certain topics here before in Glamorama (issues about who is the writer, writing the book as if it is actually a film - a result of his first three proper novels being made in to films) and I feel he acheived a far better twisted result in Glamorama.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Lunar-Park-Bret-Easton-Ellis/dp/0330440012 (2162 words)

	Bookreporter.com - LUNAR PARK by Bret Easton Ellis
		Bret Easton Ellis, a young and highly successful writer and author of five novels --- several of which brought him not only fame at a young age but also incredibly harsh criticism for insidious violence and sex --- has reconnected with old girlfriend/superstar/actress Jayne Dennis, the mother of his only son.
		Ellis joins the family and their mysteriously intuitive dog in a paradigmatic Suburbia where he hopes to leave drugs behind and focus on a new novel that has a purposefully lascivious and tawdry name.
		Ellis may regain a normal life and be a father to his son, forgetting about the innumerable missing boys that show up in the daily paper, or he may crumble into drugs, alcohol, money and delusion, never to be seen again.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0375412913.asp (721 words)

	The Morning News - Bret Easton Ellis by Robert Birnbaum
		Ellis’s latest effort, Lunar Park, details the efforts of a writer named Bret Easton Ellis to access a normal life (marriage, house in the suburbs, children adopted and conceived) after participating in the depredations and substance abuses endemic to fast-lane urban life at the end of the 20th century.
		And the narrator wasn’t Bret Easton Ellis, it was someone very much like him and had a lot of similarities to him and had the same career trajectory and had written a novel about a serial killer.
		BEE: There is, devoted to Jayne Dennis and all of her movies and stills from her films, and I am in pictures with her, as well as Keanu Reeves and other actors she dated and, yeah, a fan site is devoted to her.
	www.themorningnews.org /archives/birnbaum_v/bret_easton_ellis.php (7663 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Bret Easton Ellis
		Bret Easton Ellis is the author of four previous novels and a collection of stories, which have been translated into twenty-seven languages.
		In this interview Ellis discusses the fine line between fact and fiction, and the ways in which he defines himself as a writer.
		Bret Ellis was not the main character at that point, though the narrator was a writer and he was married and he did have children.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-ellis-bret-easton.asp (2037 words)

	Amazon.de: Lunar Park.: English Books: Bret Easton Ellis,Bret Easton Ellis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Then imagine having a second chance ten years later, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given, with a wife, children, and suburban sobriety--only to watch this new life shatter beyond recognition in a matter of days.
		In his novel Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis takes first-person narrative to an extreme, inserting himself (and a host of real characters from the publishing world) into the haunting story of a drugged-out famous writer living in the suburbs trying to reconnect with his wife and son and reconcile his damaged past.
		Ellis is at the top of his game in Lunar Park, his first novel since 1999's Glamorama, delivering a disturbing and delirious novel about celebrity, writers, and fathers and sons (not to mention a cameo from notorious Ellis creation, Patrick Bateman).
	www.amazon.de /Lunar-Park-Bret-Easton-Ellis/dp/0307276910 (1691 words)

	Amazon.ca: American Psycho: Books: Bret Easton Ellis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ellis is out to have some fun by forging these two aspects together in one person, explaining homicidal rage as an extension of vanity and pathological materialism.
		Ellis is making a much larger indictment of society, and the Wall Street characters are merely the most convenient targets, and perhaps the best (worst) exemplars of what he wants to illustrate.
		I do consider Bret Easton Ellis to be one of the great young writers of his generation, but this book seems too intent on pushing the limits of graphic depiction of violence and I felt that detracted, rather than added to the book.
	www.amazon.ca /American-Psycho-Bret-Easton-Ellis/dp/0679735771 (2389 words)

	Rumors Archives \| A Bret Easton Ellis Celeblog \| Not An Exit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In an interview for BBC television to be broadcast Thursday, Easton Ellis, 39, told how his cleaner Elaine Tubby found him in tears at his home after he had sealed the fate of the unnamed character.
		Easton Ellis said that his cleaner -- also unaware of the identity of the doomed character, plus all of the others -- had suggested that he should not kill off the character if it made him that upset.
		Easton Ellis said he had "sweated blood" to write the 766-page tome but vehemently denied reports he had delivered the book late after suffering writer's block.
	www.notanexit.net /past/rumors (1984 words)

	Ellis_Bret_Easton_ca
		Bret Easton Ellis was born in Los Angeles, California on March 7, 1964.
		Besides writing a few books at the age of sixteen, Ellis played the keyboards for various new wave groups and adapted well to the LA punk scene of the early 1980s—a time period which he used for the setting of several of his books.
		Bret Easton Ellis, born and raised in Los Angeles, mentions numerous places and streets in his novel Less Than Zero- all revolving around the wealthy and trendy "hotspots" of Southern California.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/ellis_bret_easton_ca.htm (1055 words)

	Bret Easton Ellis' inspired new novel. - By Meghan O'Rourke - Slate Magazine
		If the substance of Ellis' critiques is not itself all that interesting—the suburbs are boring, models are vapid—the visceral experience of reading them is. Numbness is a feeling, too, and sustained flatness, while not at all naturalistic, has its own impact.
		Ellis has been criticized for being unable to render feeling convincingly, but this passage—invoking the universal touchstones of middle-class American childhood—is a lyrical knockout.
		Ellis' writing is resistant to this critical error and it's brilliant of O'Rourke to set about righting this wrong, for the record.
	www.slate.com /id/2124806 (2400 words)

	Bret Easton Ellis
		Bret Easton Ellis was born (1964) and raised in Los Angeles, California, as the oldest of three children.
		Ellis attended Bennington College in Vermont, where he wrote his debut novel Less than Zero for one of his creative writing courses.
		Ellis considers himself to be heavily influenced by Hemingway, Joan Didion, James Joyce and Don DeLillo.
	www.geocities.com /arlindo_correia/060601.html (877 words)

	index magazine interview
		Bret’s kitchen is divided by an island, with some Ikea bar stools and folding chairs beside it.
		BRET: I think they were just excited that it was out and that I was going to have a career as a writer.
		BRET: I guess he is. But you have to realize you’re seeing everything in American Psycho through Patrick Bateman’s crazed, warped mind — Patrick thinks everyone’s in love with him.
	www.indexmagazine.com /interviews/bret_easton_ellis.shtml (3370 words)

	Eye Weekly - Two Brets that beat as one - 09.15.05
		Bret Easton Ellis is fucking with me. He's keeping me in the dark about who he really is, a move that will be familiar to anyone who has followed his literary career.
		And now, there is his new novel Lunar Park, a ghost story in which Ellis appears as a semi-fictionalized character with a son and an A-list actress wife (both non-existent) who are being haunted by Patrick Bateman, a character who may or may not have been inspired by Ellis' late, estranged real-life father.
		It may come as a surprise that Ellis doesn't demur when asked to explain which parts of the notorious opening chapter are true.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_09.15.05/arts/artsweek.html (696 words)

	Bret Easton Ellis
		Bret Easton Ellis, a man considered to be one of today's greatest contemporary American authors, was born in Los Angeles, California on March 7, 1964.
		Ellis later ventured across the country to attend Bennington College in Vermont where his first novel, Less Than Zero, became the result of a creative writing course-assignment.
		Bret Easton Ellis's second novel, The Rules of Attraction, was published in 1987, yet did not experience as much success as Less Than Zero.
	pubpages.unh.edu /~eah9 (313 words)

	Bret Easton Ellis St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Born and raised in Los Angeles, writer Bret Easton Ellis belongs with novelists Jay McInerney and Tama Janowitz to New York's literary "brat pack,;" writers who achieved early success with their portraits of lonely types isolated in sparkling 1980s New York.
		Ellis has published four books: the novels Less Than Zero (1985),; The Rules of Attraction (1987),; and American Psycho (1991),; and the short story collection The Informers (1994).
		Ellis does challenge the reader to face Bateman's cruelty for the sake of reaping the reward of the final message of the book: "Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in...
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200364 (915 words)

	Bret Easton Ellis
		On the surface of things, Bret Easton Ellis is a rich kid from LA who has made his fortune from cashing in on public obsession with
		If a section of the media have a problem with Ellis it may be partly due to their inability to peg him down for long.
		The most remarkable thing about Bret Easton Ellis in the flesh is his ordinariness.
	hometown.aol.com /allyfogg/ellis.html (1320 words)

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		Ellis has on many occasions stated that shocking and appalling never has been any of his goals when writing.
		Ellis' political statement in the novel is obvious and present throughout the entire novel.
		Ellis' novels are without a doubt entertaining, but at the same time they are important.
	home.c2i.net /ajohanne/frames_bio.html (1030 words)

	Kultureflash ::: Artworker of the Week ::: Bret Easton Ellis
		As Bret Easton Ellis knows, the danger of being precocious is to never mature.
		Starting with Less Than Zero, a glittering and grotesque odyssey of hedonism and decay in LA which Ellis sold to Penguin Books at age 21, he has become one of contemporary literature's most compelling icons and strongest talents.
		AFH: Marriage and fatherhood are the catalysts for the Bret Easton Ellis character's maturation in Lunar Park yet you've never been married or a father.
	www.kultureflash.net /archive/139/priview.html (1310 words)

	BBC - collective - bret easton ellis interview
		Ellis was depicted as the enfant terrible of literature: the man you love to hate, or hate to love.
		In the first chapter of Lunar Park, Ellis lampoons his own past to create the Bret Easton Ellis of the book, effortlessly (his word) taking the reader away from the popular perception of the author to allow himself to become a horror genre writer.
		But Ellis the interviewee is as unreliable as his fictionalised protagonists, insisting, “I believe every word this protagonist says.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A6127427 (605 words)

	Amazon.com: American Psycho: Books: Bret Easton Ellis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ellis was not nearly as interested in showing the flashy glitter of that time as he was in revealing the dark side of excess in an America spiraling into total chaos.
		Ellis is an American Dickens, holding a mirror up to the face of America and daring us to look deep into its depths.
		Bret Ellis is to be commended for penning a book that plunges into the murky depths of our country's soul to expose our paradoxes and our ugliness.
	www.amazon.com /American-Psycho-Bret-Easton-Ellis/dp/0679735771 (2951 words)

	Salon Books \| Great American novelist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1991, Ellis published the novel "American Psycho." He was 27 years old that winter, and everybody hated him.
		Brutality is a fact of life as ineradicable as the rules of attraction, and Ellis is no more a cause of violence in America than Pynchon is accountable for gravity's rainbow (his term for the trajectory of a missile).
		Even Ellis himself has modestly judged his prose to be within the slippery tradition of Joan Didion.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/01/cov_22feature.html (647 words)

	The Cult - ChuckPalahniuk.net
		Ellis: The impetus to write the novel came from wanting to mimic the books I loved as a boy and a teenager--specifically the Stephen King novels I devoured as well as both the Warren Comics of the 70's (Creepy, Eerie, Vampirilla) and the slightly less edgy EC Comics (Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt).
		Ellis: Well, it helped with the new novel because there were certain facts within American Psycho that corresponded with the events in Lunar Park.
		Ellis: Touring is a weird combination of misery and boredom and excitement.
	www.chuckpalahniuk.net /features/interviews/breteastonellis (2539 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Bret Easton Ellis
		Bret Easton Ellis: I haven't seen the press kit, but it's cool that they put some negative reviews in there to give people an idea of just how divisive I am for audiences.
		Maybe it has something to do with the persona of Bret Easton Ellis that was put out there; that was bothersome to some people.
		Ellis: I definitely write the book that I want to read, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I like writers who write like me or write about the same subject or have the same stylistic approach.
	www.powells.com /authors/ellis.html (3049 words)

	A Bret Easton Ellis Celeblog \| Not An Exit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ellis Interview, New To Me Thanks to Mitch in the forum for pointing to this audio interview with Ellis by the BBC from mid 2005.
		Bret Easton Ellis' two short stories chronicle the lives of a group of Los Angeles residents all of them suffering from nothing less that death of the soul.
		The book features a suburban Bret as a character - married, with children, and living in a house where the exterior color changes, furniture moves, and the stuffed animals can be dangerous.
	www.notanexit.net (1616 words)

	Ellis, Bret Easton (1964—) Biography \| sjpc_02_package.xml
		Born and raised in Los Angeles, writer Bret Easton Ellis belongs with novelists Jay McInerney and Tama Janowitz to New York's literary "brat pack,"; writers who achieved early success with their portraits of lonely types isolated in sparkling 1980s New York.
		Ellis has published four books: the novels Less Than Zero (1985), The Rules of Attraction (1987), and American Psycho (1991), and the short story collection The Informers (1994).
		Ellis does challenge the reader to face Bateman's cruelty for the sake of reaping the reward of the final message of the book: "Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in … this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged," Bateman says at the end of the novel.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/ellis-bret-easton-1964-sjpc-02 (892 words)

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