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	BookPage Fiction Review: Lunar Park
		Reading Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis' new novel about a writer named Bret Easton Ellis, is like nothing so much as watching a terrible accident occurring in slow-motion and reflected in a series of funhouse mirrors.
		Lunar Park effortlessly morphs from feeling like a Henry James ghost story into a John Updike skewering of the suburbs into the paralytic state of Anne Rivers Siddons' The House Next Door, with splashes of post 9/11 horrors reported in the most Thomas Harris-like offhand fashion.
		Lunar Park is well crafted and often very frightening, with the worst horrors not coming from terrorists or who/what is haunting Ellis and his house, but from what American life has become for one American man.
	www.bookpage.com /0509bp/fiction/lunar_park.html (0 words)

	The Pinocchio Theory » Blog Archive » Lunar Park (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Indeed, Lunar Park is pseudo-autobiographical: the narrator/protagonist is one Bret Easton Ellis, a novelist famous and controversial for his high life at fashionable nightclubs, as much as for such books as Less Than Zero and especially the notorious American Psycho.
		The world of Lunar Park is a world of expensive malls and elite private schools and children hypermedicated on Ritalin and Prozac and whatever else can prevent them from being too curious, too manic, too afraid, or too divergent from the responsibilities and powers of the class they have been born into.
		Lunar relates to the moon and Luna to both the Roman goddess of the moon and is the alchemical name for silver.
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	Lunar Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lunar Park is a combined semi-autobiographical novelization of the life of Bret Easton Ellis and ghost story.
		It was released by Knopf on August 16, 2005.
		Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting horror, both psychological and supernatural, toward an astonishing resolution — about love and loss, fathers and sons — in what is surely the most powerfully original and deeply moving novel of an extraordinary career.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lunar_Park (837 words)

	Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis: Reviews
		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.
		"Lunar Park" owes its emotional punch to two things: the theme of estranged fathers and sons, and Ellis's undeniable eye for detailed satire.
		In the end, Lunar Park's desire to tell a meaningful story about fathers and sons is foiled by the complicated metaphor of the supernatural, not enriched by it.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/ellisbreteaston/lunarpark (1065 words)

	Dogmatika :: books >> culture >> stuff
		When considering Lunar Park as a genre work, it is interesting to note that though the book utilises the codes and conventions present within the horror genre it is not exclusively a horror novel.
		It is in this sense that Lunar Park confounds its audience: its refusal to work within the boundaries of the family resemblances of one particular genre and its attempt to straddle the preconceived echelons of fiction, challenge the expectations of its perceived audience.
		What is evident is that with Lunar Park Ellis has confounded the expectations of his perceived audience and exploited the codes and conventions of the horror genre to produce a piece of work that itself traverses the bookshop's shelf regardless of whether the reader is willing.
	dogmatika.com /dm/features_more.php?id=1890_0_5_0_M (2279 words)

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	Books : Lunar Park
		Connecting these aberrations to graver events--a series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his son's age--Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace even as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania.
		Ellis is at the top of his game in Lunar Park, his very 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).
		Overall, Lunar Park was a brilliant addition to the Ellis collection and well worth the wait.
	www.cosyreading.info /0375727272/Lunar_Park.shtml (2208 words)

	Could-be autobiography shows heart
		Ellis is the narrator of Lunar Park, the new novel by the author named Bret Easton Ellis.
		Ellis puts his namesake through the proverbial wringer in Lunar Park, and while he allows the narrator to defend himself (on Psycho: "It was about society and manners and mores, and not about cutting up women.
		Lunar Park is a story about the momentous pain parents inflict on their children, and Ellis' appropriation of his own life ends up adding an extra layer of poignancy to this most personal of novels.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/ae/articles/0821lunarpark0821.html (724 words)

	‘Lunar Park’ blurs fiction, reality (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bret Easton Ellis is the main character of "Lunar Park" as well as the author.
		The important thing to remember with "Lunar Park" is that within the covers of this novel, the lines between fiction and reality are blurred.
		The first half of "Lunar Park" is Bret Easton Ellis stuck in a family that he doesn't want or feel like he belongs to, somewhere in suburbia.
	www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/books/050925/book3.shtml (578 words)

	Lunar Park
		The hero of Lunar Park is Brat Pack author Bret Easton Ellis, author of such novels as Less Than Zero and American Psycho.
		In other words, he is a self-conscious child of the "Reagan eighties." As Lunar Park opens, however, he seems to be finally settling down into suburban life (OK, it's a really, really nice suburb where famous rich people live, but still the 'burbs).
		Lunar Park is an homage to Stephen King.
	www.goodreports.net /reviews/lunarpark.htm (913 words)

	Lunar Park (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lunar Park, a 2005 novel by Bret Easton Ellis
		Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace even as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania.
		Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting horror, both psychological and supernatural, toward an astonishing resolution - about love and loss, fathers and sons - in what is surely the most powerfully original and deeply moving novel of an extraordinary career.
	www.squidoo.com /Lunar_Park (952 words)

	Who's fooling whom? \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Progressively, while continuing the techniques of autobiography, Lunar Park becomes a classy horror story in which Ellis is apparently being stalked by his creation, Patrick Bateman: a sort of I Know What You Wrote Last Summer.
		So Ellis, in Lunar Park, has been playing with himself, and the angry bafflement of the novel's American reception has duly included the traditional insults aimed at self-abuse.
		Ellis's Lunar Park seems a similar reaction by a novelist who feels that media exposure has created a fictional version of himself.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,1582155,00.html (989 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The opening of Lunar Park is both clever and confusing.
		Beyond this “biographical” aspect, Lunar Park covers a series of events during a period of no more than a couple of weeks over late October/ early November.
		While there is the odd clever twist to this mundane horror tale, Lunar Park limps to an unresolved, frustrating and disappointing conclusion.
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	Luna Park (1992) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They live in Luna Park, an amusement park, a place of wild rollercoasters and distorting mirrors, where they regularly beat up on "non-Russians," the foreigners and Jews who come there.
		Without giving away too much information, Luna Park, the amusement park where the action begins, is where the climax happens, and is a metaphor for Russia and what it has to face.
		There's the ugly side to the human nature depicted in the skinheads brutal actions and the decay of Russian society blamed on "non-Russians." But the majority of the film regards Oleg's journey and transformation as he gets to know his father, and this is the rewarding, and ultimately beautiful side of the film.
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	Bret Easton Ellis
		But in LUNAR PARK the characters (including kids and dogs) seem to get most of their drugs over the counter.
		I don't know how much of that is an aspect in LUNAR PARK that I thought was important to explore, but it's definitely part of our world now, and not just the one depicted in the novel.
		Plus I never felt in LUNAR PARK that I was trying to drive home the point that what the reader was experiencing was fiction—quite the opposite, in fact.
	www.randomhouse.com /kvpa/eastonellis/printable2.php?file=xml/books/lunar_qa.xml (1570 words)

	Bret Easton Ellis' 'Lunar Park,' starring one Bret Easton Ellis, is a big self-conscious mess \| The San Diego ...
		If a novelist writes a bad novel, a critic has a duty to say why: The plot is lame, the characters flat, the conflict uncoiled, the theme old hat.
		"Lunar Park" is a roman a clef, in which Ellis' Ellis lives in a Fairbanks Ranch-like home with his newly acquired family: a movie star wife, named Jayne Dennis; a stepdaughter from one of Dennis' liaisons; and Dennis and Ellis'11-year-old son, whom Ellis wanted aborted and has never acknowledged, but now wants to father.
		"Lunar Park" may mirror just how dangerous the self-delusions of a few powerful men can be.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050904/news_lz1v04lunar.html (1132 words)

	Lunar Park - Book Reviews - Books - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		The most powerful of these are the ghost of his father and his step-daughter's bloodthirsty pet bird, called a Terby, which comes to life and seems intent on mayhem.
		These are staples of the horror genre and, structurally, Lunar Park is a homage to Stephen King.
		Another warning: Ellis rewards his keener fans with plenty of in-jokes.) Lunar Park is a Chinese puzzle of a book, satisfying on each of its many levels.
	www.smh.com.au /news/books/lunar-park/2005/09/15/1126750065641.html (646 words)

	Book Reviews - Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
		The protagonist in Lunar Park is Bret Easton Ellis, a fictional character whose life mirrors the author's.
		Lunar Park has received mostly positive reviews with the Miami Herald saying, "Lunar Park is a story about the momentous pain parents inflict on their children, and Ellis' appropriation of his own life, which initially seems like a vainglorious stunt, ends up adding an extra layer of poignancy to this most personal of novels.
		The worst violence in Lunar Park is internal and emotional, and in its beautiful closing pages, this rich, deceptively complex novel argues that's the most damaging violence of all."
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /lunar_park (0 words)

	alwaysBETA » Lunar Park
		The second was, of course, Ellis’s Lunar Park.
		Lunar Park starts as a semi-fictional autobiography that sets up the rest of the story.
		I knew Ellis could look back on a previous decade and pull out important themes, prejudices, and trends, but Lunar Park proved to me that he can do it with today as well.
	www.alwaysbeta.com /2006/04/11/lunar-park (807 words)

	‘Lunar Park’ a strong comeback for Ellis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bret Easton Ellis returns with “Lunar Park,” his first novel in six years.
		“Lunar Park” finds Ellis married to fictional actress Jayne Dennis, whom he had an affair with 11 years before and may have fathered a son with.
		For those who have read other novels by Ellis, “Lunar Park” is a welcome return.
	www.ocolly.com /new_ocollycom/new_site/read_story.php?a_id=27597 (451 words)

	My So-Called Admirer \| Stephen King \| The Pop of King \| News + Notes \| Entertainment Weekly
		Stephen King on ''Lunar Park'' being an homage to him.
		I got a clear sense of Lunar Park having started almost as a joke — perhaps a rather desperate one, part apology for American Psycho — and having finished as what is close to a credo.
		Speaking of hearts, readers of Lunar Park may be surprised to find that Bret Easton Ellis has a surprisingly large one.
	www.ew.com /ew/article/0,,1107881,00.html (891 words)

	The Reading Experience: On Lunar Park (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I'm still not sure I understand the resolution of all of its various Stephen King-derived horror-narrative tropes and devices, but then by the time I got to the part of the novel where these things were apparently going to be explained, I really didn't care anymore.
		Traver's primary contention is that, despite its implausibilities, Lunar Park is finally "creepy and compelling entertainment." Unfortunately, the novel seemed to me not at all creepy, but all too bland and formulaic.
		Ellis is not interested in "the supremacy of imagination" because, as far as I can see, he has no imagination, and he's not interested in the "textuality" of language because he has no feel for language.
	noggs.typepad.com /the_reading_experience/2005/10/on_lunar_park.html (992 words)

	Powell's Books - Lunar Park (Vintage Contemporaries) by Bret Easton Ellis
		Remarkable in scope and plot, Lunar Park is an almost masochistic metafiction in which the author plays himself as a suburban dad paying gruesome penance for being Bret Easton Ellis.
		Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting horror, both psychological and supernatural, toward an astonishing resolution — about love and loss, fathers and sons — in what is surely the most powerfully original and deeply moving novel of an extraordinary career.
		Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college.
	www.powells.com /biblio/0375727272 (0 words)

	Bookreporter.com - LUNAR PARK by Bret Easton Ellis
		In Bret Easton Ellis's brilliant new novel, LUNAR PARK --- his first in six years --- these ideas surface through the life of a character who surprisingly has the same name as the author.
		LUNAR PARK, despite its classification as literature, absolutely earns itself a place among the top works of horror.
		LUNAR PARK, and especially its opening autobiographical format, has any serious Ellis fan --- like myself --- immediately hooked and impossibly trying to discern what is real from what is not.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0375412913.asp (0 words)

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	A star of 1980s fiction tries for a comeback \| csmonitor.com
		The fact that I was only twenty-one and there were no other voices yet seemed not to matter." According to "Bret," he, writer Jay McInerney (who makes a guest appearance in "Lunar Park"), and the rest of the Brat Pack spent the 1980s indulging in the Reagan-era excesses their books lampooned.
		In "Lunar Park," an exhausted "Bret" has come to the same conclusion about his heroin- and cocaine-fueled existence.
		While the Ellis of "Lunar Park" backs away from the more transgressive material of "Glamorama" and "American Psycho," that doesn't mean he's auditioning for the role of the 21st-century Jane Austen.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0823/p14s01-bogn.html (948 words)

	Amazon.com: Lunar Park: Books: Bret Easton Ellis
		Connecting these aberrations to graver events--a series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his son’s age--Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace even as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania.
		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.
		Lunar Park is a supposedly true account of terrifying hauntings that occurred in writer Bret Easton Ellis's life over a series of days immediately following Halloween.
	www.amazon.com /Lunar-Park-Bret-Easton-Ellis/dp/0375727272 (0 words)

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