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Lunar Park Hardcover - 2005

by Bret Easton Ellis


Summary

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. In the years that followed he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame, as well as dealing with the unexpected death of his abusive father. After a decade of decadence a chance for salvation arrives; the chance to reconnect with an actress he was once involved with, and their son. But almost immediately his new life is threatened by a freak sequence of events and a bizarre series of murders that all seem to connect to Ellis's past. His attempts to save his new world from his own demons makes Lunar Park Ellis's most suspenseful novel. In this chilling tale reality, memoir, and fantasy combine to create not only a fascinating version of this most controversial writer but also a deeply moving novel about love and loss, parents and children, and ultimately forgiveness.From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the publisher

Imagine becoming a best-selling novelist, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, while after "American Psycho "your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze, and drugs.
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. At a fateful Halloween party he glimpses a disturbing (fictional) character driving a car identical to his late father s, his stepdaughter s doll violently malfunctions, and their house undergoes bizarre transformations both within and without.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."
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."

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  • Title Lunar Park
  • Author Bret Easton Ellis
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
  • Date 2005-08-16
  • ISBN 9780375412912 / 0375412913
  • Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.82 x 6.66 x 1.26 in (24.94 x 16.92 x 3.20 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, College teachers
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005040923
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Excerpt

Please visit eastonellis.com to read an excerpt, and get more information about the book.

Media reviews

"[Ellis's] most enjoyable novel . . . The story of a doomed marriage blends with a satirical take on upscale suburban angst, a campy horror story about a haunted house, a Frankenstein-like case of a monster unchained and a serious rumination on the damage fathers can do to sons. Ellis stirs these elements into a steamy witches' brew and works his way through to a marvelously elegiac ending, displaying real artistic discipline . . . Even his harshest critics may now have to acknowledge that this versatile, resourceful writer has formidable skills." --Kirkus, starred review

About the author

Bret Easton Ellis is the author of four previous novels and a collection of stories, which have been translated into twenty-seven languages.He divides his time between Los Angeles and New York City."
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