In Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis shows us a shadowy looking-glass world, the juncture where fame and fashion, terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives.
The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasnât been and with people he doesnât know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history, heâs living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. Now itâs time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.
âDoes for the cold, minimal â90s what American Psycho did for the Wall Street greed of the â80s. You name it, he manages to get it all in.â VOGUE
In Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis shows us a shadowy looking-glass world, the juncture where fame and fashion, terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives.
The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right frie...