A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city. His first novel in 13 years, The Shards is Bret Easton Ellis at his inimitable best. Los Angeles, 1981 –17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends, even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equalled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with The Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. Can he trust his friends – or his own mind – to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, Bret spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between The Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision. Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting and often darkly funny, The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret's life at 17 – sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage.
© 2023 W. F. Howes Ltd (Lydbog): 9781004109760
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Lydbog: 17. januar 2023
A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city. His first novel in 13 years, The Shards is Bret Easton Ellis at his inimitable best. Los Angeles, 1981 –17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends, even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equalled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with The Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. Can he trust his friends – or his own mind – to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, Bret spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between The Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision. Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting and often darkly funny, The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret's life at 17 – sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage.
© 2023 W. F. Howes Ltd (Lydbog): 9781004109760
Release date
Lydbog: 17. januar 2023
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Ella
5. jul. 2023
Han er tilbage i god form. "Sprækker" er en præcis titel, for mere end noget andet handler bogen om alle de sprækker af usagte ting, der er mellem mennesker. Og så er det med denne forfatter selvfølgelig også dystert, grumt og råt. Super oplæst. Den sidste stjerne mangler, fordi bogen alligevel blev lidt for langtrukken til mig. Men det er også en del af pointen, og bogen er bestemt værd at lytte.
Rasmus
29. jun. 2023
BEE i fineste form. "Fiktiv autobiografi" er hermed skrevet på listen over relevante litteraturgenre! Læst af manden selv, oven i købet.
Morten
13. jun. 2023
Fremragende autofiktion
Marie-Louise
27. jun. 2023
Kan kun anbefale - sex, stoffer og splatter ‘sælger’ og driver historien fremad - men forfatteren har samtidig mere på hjertet og er eminent til at fremkalde de mange sprækker og afstande mellem mennesker, der udefra opleves som tæt forbundne. Læste selv hans 1. par udgivelser som ung og det var lidt som at foretage samme rejse tilbage i tid og nu genbesøge med mere viden/livserfaring.
Torkild
27. jun. 2023
Mesteren er tilbage
Mia
25. jun. 2023
Bedste bog jeg har læst længe
Hanne
16. okt. 2023
A masterpiece!
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