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	Glamorama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Glamorama is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis.
		Just as American Psycho was a satire of greed and obsession with consumerism, Glamorama is a satire of society's obsession with celebrities and beauty, and features a great deal of violence, fl humor and surrealism.
		There are also many bomb attacks, with detailed descriptions of men, women and children being blown apart, burned alive and mutilated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glamorama (530 words)

	Glamorama -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Glamorama is a (A extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story) novel by (additional info and facts about Bret Easton Ellis) Bret Easton Ellis.
		Whilst the first half primarily introduces the characters and sets the scene, the second-half of Glamorama, when the action shifts from New York to London and then Paris, contains a great deal of extreme violence, in particular two gruesome (The act of torturing someone) torture sequences that feature castration and electrocution.
		Imagining himself to be in a movie, and that the dead bodies that he sees in the aftermath of bomb attacks are just fakes, reduces his guilt.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gl/glamorama.htm (429 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Too Much Too Old: Glamorama so 1996
		GLAMORAMA By Bret Easton Ellis Knopf $25,482 pp.
		The world of celebrity in Glamorama really is inescapable, not just because Victor is too shallow to comprehend anything beyond it, but because everything--from the public spheres of politics and religion to the private sphere of sex--is part of this world.
		Glamorama is a book that reads like a movie, and its constant references to Victor's life being filmed ("I think the look they exchange is over-done; the director, surprisingly, does not") without any specific motive is a tidy commentary on the creeping increase of observation.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=124586 (1192 words)

	Glamorama \| Open Thread: Glamorama \| Not An Exit
		Don't read the review if you haven't read Glamorama and don't want to spoil it, but he really hits the proverbial nail on the proverbial head, as it were, so to speak and whatnot.
		To me, Glamorama was clearly the most insightful book Ellis has written, it has depth to the very core of its narrative, yet it takes a long while to be able to see this.
		glamorama is a great book and it has literary value, but it's not a culture, phenomona, or something to be confused with reality.
	www.notanexit.net /past/2005/04/18_open_thread_glamorama.shtml (6026 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Glamorama at Epinions.com
		Glamorama is the latest twisted tale from Bret Easton Ellis, the man who brought us American Psycho and Rules of Attraction.
		The first 120 pages of Glamorama are nothing but Victor and his people running their mouths constantly.
		Glamorama is a twisted, confusing story that pulls no stops and holds nothing back.
	www.epinions.com /content_104537558660 (501 words)

	Books: Modish Operandi (The Boston Phoenix . 03-01-99)
		Further, in American Psycho the violence was intimate, committed by the narrator (implicating -- fairly or not -- the author); in Glamorama the narrator -- the authorial voice -- is that of helpless onlooker.
		And so Glamorama puts some distance between the author and the violence, the reader and the violence, and the sex and the violence.
		First, there's the blurring of reality and illusion (largely due to the introduction of a movie crew that begins filming the proceedings, and that may or may not be a figment of Victor's imagination).
	weeklywire.com /ww/03-01-99/boston_books_1.html (1526 words)

	Glamorama
		The hero, Victor Ward, is a male model with a sexy smile, cubed abs, and part of a degree in experimental orchestra.
		Waugh was one of the originators of the dark, ironic social comedy that Ellis explores to its darkest and most ironic depths.
		Like Tony Last in A Handful of Dust, the likeable hero of Glamorama is an empty vessel representative of his superficial and morally bankrupt society, sent packing to a physical and existential hell.
	www.goodreports.net /reviews/glamorama.htm (704 words)

	B.E.E. Glamorama
		Glamorama vient d'être traduit aux éditions Laffont : acheter ce livre
		When I finally got back to Glamorama in the summer of 1992, my father suddenly died and another year was lost.
		I think in Glamorama, however, that it's a gradual shift in tone and the reader is better prepared for it than they might have been with my earlier novels.
	aubry.free.fr /Bretglam.htm (1785 words)

	BookPage Interview January 1999: Bret Easton Ellis
		The book in question is this month's Glamorama, and if Ellis doesn't consider it the career-defining statement (he's too smart for that), it remains in almost every other way a very big book.
		As Ellis puts it, "the celebrity culture is so surreal, so that's a big part of the book." In the end, Glamorama works because it is only marginally more surreal than the evening news featuring Barbara Streisand whispering in the president's ear or Ginger Spice retiring from pop music to become a UN envoy.
		Glamorama, sprawling ambitious thing that it is, may not be the "Big Book," but it's done.
	www.bookpage.com /9901bp/bret_easton_ellis.html (1201 words)

	Fashion on fire
		Glamorama contacted designers such as Stella McCartney, Zac Posen and Matthew Williamson and gave them one instruction: Design a red dress for the show's finale.
		A Glamorama favorite best known for his sexy gowns, the British designer tweaked a number he already had shown on the runways.
		Glamorama -- which made its Chicago debut in 1999 as Fash Bash -- has become an annual staple in Chicago's fashion circle and has raised more than $1 million over five years to benefit the Art Institute of Chicago.
	www.suntimes.com /output/fashion/cst-ftr-glam12.html (527 words)

	Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)) : Berichte, Bewertungen, Informationen, Preise
		It was hard for me to admit, after finishing "Glamorama," but Ellis is one of the most original satirists we have working today.
		Glamorama works when you accept its surrealism instead of working against it.
		Any criticisms of absence of plot could be countered with the fact that Ellis, amidst the swirling chaos, usually keeps a very tight rein on his narratives, so he has, as far as I'm concerned, the benefit of the doubt on this one.
	www.medfools.com /shopde/product/0375703845/Glamorama_(Vintage_Contemporaries).html (1172 words)

	Salon Books \| Great American novelist
		"Glamorama" is "American Psycho" with the volume turned to 11, louder and more extravagant in its death count, yes, but also so wildly distorted as to attain a quality utterly unique in contemporary literature.
		And if there are too many rats lost in too many mazes for the reader to draw a single conclusion or even to infer a coherent hypothesis, if the success or failure of the novel is impossible to measure, it's because, like Stein's "Lucy Church Amiably," there's no standard against which to measure it.
		But if "Glamorama" is lavish proof that Ellis is the kind of rogue genius worthy of canonization, still it does not belong in the canon.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/01/cov_22feature2.html (1509 words)

	More Than Zero
		The proof is that he has written one himself: the first couple hundred pages of Glamorama, an epic of subversive product placement that does for Prada, Snapple, E!, and practically every other snazzy trademark that clutters the lives of the young and fabulous approximately what the Bhopal disaster did for Union Carbide.
		Glamorama ought to be awful, and is, at times, what with its presold moral hysteria over the links between hedonism and fascism.
		The human maggot feeding at the center of Glamorama's brilliant garage pile is Victor Ward, a sort-of-famous model whose father happens to be a U.S. senator.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/books/reviews/1055 (1155 words)

	Glamorama Movie Archives \| A Bret Easton Ellis Celeblog \| Not An Exit
		Glamorama Film Tie-In with a release date of Jan 5, 2007.
		Just been sent a press release from Macmillan who are publishing a Glamorama film tie in edition of the book on the 5th of Jan 2007.
		I've looked for it, and found nothing that could confirm that Macmillan is even planning to publish an edition of Glamorama to coincide w/ Roger Avary's film release.
	notanexit.net /past/glamorama_movie/index.shtml (625 words)

	Marshall Field’s 2005 Glamorama Will Rock
		Glamorama, which will take place at the Chicago Theatre, is an entertaining fundraising event that will feature red carpet arrivals, designer fashion, high energy rock ‘n’ roll, celebrity attendees and over-the-top post parties.
		The scenery is quite a switch from the Glamorama 2004 after party of a surreal and sexy red paradise.
		Glamorama’s diversification year after year is what helps to draw more and more people each year.
	www.factio-magazine.com /specialfeatures/spe__Glamorama2005.htm (399 words)

	CNN - Review: 'Glamorama' - September 29, 1999
		"Glamorama" unfolds in that New York demimonde where chic is a way of life.
		It's a land of self-perpetuated celebrity, where people are sized up and classified based on their looks, their wealth, their level of notoriety, and the number of magazine covers their faces grace.
		His eye is unflinching, whether he's describing the ensemble worn by a notorious clothes horse, or the grisly aftermath of a hotel bombing, or the graphic details of a menage a trois.
	www.cnn.com /books/reviews/9909/29/glamorama (751 words)

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		He supplied everyone with the guns and instructed several members concerning their role in firebombing the Glamorama premises as an aftermath to the attack.
		The accomplices' accounts of this murder and of the Glamorama shootings is damning and varied with eyewitness, confessional and circumstantial aspects.
		Independent evidence from EMS and police and medical personnel as to the precise location of Lovell's body at the place of execution and the location of the fatal gunshot wounds corresponded with the details of the accomplice who accompanied and aided Breland in the Lovell killing and who testified against him at trial.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?court=ny&vol=083&invol=0286 (1936 words)

	National Review: Ellis's Island - Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Glamorama, by Bret Easton Ellis (Knopf, 482 pp., $25)
		He explained the brutality of Glamorama this way in a recent interview: "The connection between the fashion world and terrorism came from an abstract idea about the tyranny of beauty going on in the culture-how uneasy it makes everybody, how it makes everybody insecure about the way they look.
		Perhaps the graphic brutality of Glamorama really is there to puncture the cult of the celebrity.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_4_51/ai_53901772 (782 words)

	Barnes and Noble Author Chat Transcripts
		But GLAMORAMA's narrator, Victor Ward, is a compendium of a lot of traits of the men of my generation that I have found annoying and bothersome.
		Victor's father is involved in politics, and part of the conspiracy at the heart of GLAMORAMA is connected to Washington, D.C., but that doesn't necessarily mean that the book is at all touching on anything political.
		I think that is absent from GLAMORAMA, and because of the nature of the narrator, there is real pain and horror at the violence, which again reflects my feelings as I have gotten older.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/8506/Ellis/bnchat2.html (3141 words)

	Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)) : Reviews, Prices, Deals
		As many of the other reviews of this book have already stated, Glamorama is a blurred, confusing mix of celebrity and gore.
		From my memories of who was who over the past few years and what music was playing etc. I would assume Glamorama is set in early-1997 (although Easton-Ellis never gives an exact date and seems to just want the late nineties to be as exact as it gets).
		Glamorama has taken the character development that was shown so well in American Psycho and made each and every one of us go from loathing Victor Ward to actually feeling sorry for him to cheering for him.
	www.medfools.com /shopuk/product/0375703845/Glamorama_(Vintage_Contemporaries).html (1019 words)

	Glamorama - Compare prices
		Glamorama is a satirical mass-murder opus more ambitious than Ellis's 1990 American Psycho.
		Glamorama gets better when Victor gets drafted into a mysterious group of model/terrorists who bomb 747s and the Ritz in Paris, wearing Kevlar-lined Armani suits.
		Oh, they still behave like shallow snobs, pronouncing "cool" as if it had 12 "o"s, but now when somebody swills Cristal, it's apt to be poisoned, to horrific effect, which Ellis expertly describes.
	www.priceclash.co.uk /glamorama (285 words)

	Kerr and Surowiecki James Surowiecki
		Glamorama is genre fiction for young white men, Jim, almost as surely as How Stella Got Her Groove Back is genre fiction for fl women.
		Glamorama may be genre fiction for young white men, but if so they are breathtakingly ironic young white men.
		What I meant instead is that in its resolute attention to surface and its recognition of the essential arbitrariness of existence, Glamorama prepares the ground for something larger than character to emerge.
	www.slate.com /id/2000023 (1691 words)

	Eye - On Page - 03.04.99
		The story -- the novel is comprised of very little else -- follows the irritating life of its narrator Victor Ward, a spoiled U.S. senator's son whose life achievement, on the edge of 30, is having been briefly famous for dating a supermodel.
		Had Glamorama been cut by about one-third, and had its author allowed himself some authorial license, the novel might have earned its pretensions to being an American Sentimental Education.
		As it stands, Glamorama can't decide if it wants be a cruel masterpiece of creative journalism or an updated Harold Robbins beach book -- and Ellis' attempts at Robbe-Grillet-like deconstruction in the novel's second half lack the required intellectual rigor.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.04.99/arts/onpage.html (447 words)

	NWI.com on TownNews
		The new Glamorama shop area of the Field's State Street store opened earlier this month in advance of the official unveiling event Aug. 9, which also serves as a charity event fashion show at the Chicago Theatre.
		Designers featured in "Glamorama," both the store shop area and the Aug. 9 event, include Jean Paul Gaultier, Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, Celine, Donna Karan, Dolce and Gabbana and Versace Jeans Couture.
		Steele said one of the aspects of the "Glamorama" that makes it ideal is a sense of fashion glamour appealing to all ages.
	nwitimes.com /articles/2002/07/27/export30646.eml (676 words)

	Glamorama
		The surprise of his ambitious new 482-page novel, Glamorama, is that Ellis has reinvigorated his style with a more reader-friendly comic energy and a hapless Candide-like protagonist.
		In fact, Glamorama evolves into a looking-glass alternate reality in which Victor is simultaneously living the book’s story and acting in a movie version of the story.
		Here is where Glamorama revisits the graphic horrors of American Psycho, reconfigured this time around for a commentary on real-world violence versus the comfortable distance we’re used to from CNN and newspaper accounts of geopolitical struggles.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/glamorama.htm (959 words)

	Books: Book Reviews (Austin Chronicle . 03-08-99)
		When I was assigned to review Glamorama, I decided not to read any press about it first, to avoid the storm of righteous outrage and pretentious reverence Ellis' novels inevitably provoke.
		Unfortunately, in escaping the danger of having someone else tell me what to think about the book, I bypassed the more crucial benefit of having them tell me what it was about.
		And though it demonstrates that Ellis has grown in many ways as a writer, his growth in page count must be checked now.
	weeklywire.com /ww/03-08-99/austin_books_feature2.html (1579 words)

	Amazon.com: Glamorama: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Glamorama is a satirical mass-murder opus more ambitious than Bret Easton Ellis's 1990 American Psycho.
		For half its length 'Glamorama' amounts to a comedy of manners, enhanced by Ellis's ear for dialogue and his, rather surprising, virtuosity in shaping the word surface.
		Ellis's interviews are readily available on the web, and unfortunately he confides that plot or, as he prefers to term it, 'narrative' was one of his central concerns in 'Glamorama' - he wants the second half of the book to work as a plot-driven thriller.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375404120?v=glance (2334 words)

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