Reviews
" The Informers skillfully accomplishes its goal of depicting a modern moral wasteland. . . arguably Ellis's best." - The Boston Globe "A post-modern Winesburg, Ohio. . . . Ellis's cleverness is on full display. . . . He has a keen ear for dialogue, a sharp eye for the moral bankruptcy of modern life, and a vivid imagination." - San Francisco Chronicle " The Informers is spare, austere, elegantly designed, telling in detail, coolly ferocious, sardonic in its hum∨ every vestige of authorial sentiment is expunged. . . . Truly unsettling." - The New York Times Book Review "Bret Easton Ellis. . . is an extremely traditional and very serious American novelist. He is the model of literary filial piety, counting among his parents Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion." - The Washington Post, " The Informers skillfully accomplishes its goal of depicting a modern moral wasteland. . . arguably Ellis's best." -- The Boston Globe "A post-modern Winesburg, Ohio. . . . Ellis's cleverness is on full display. . . . He has a keen ear for dialogue, a sharp eye for the moral bankruptcy of modern life, and a vivid imagination." -- San Francisco Chronicle " The Informers is spare, austere, elegantly designed, telling in detail, coolly ferocious, sardonic in its humor; every vestige of authorial sentiment is expunged. . . . Truly unsettling." -- The New York Times Book Review "Bret Easton Ellis. . . is an extremely traditional and very serious American novelist. He is the model of literary filial piety, counting among his parents Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion." -- The Washington Post, "Bret Easton Ellis is a very, very good writer [and] American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel...Written out of the American tradition -- the novelist's function is to keep a running tag on the progress of the culture; and he's done it brilliantly...A seminal book." -- Fay Weldon, Washington Post "What's rarely said in all the furor over this novel is that it's a satire, a hilarious, repulsive, boring, seductive, deadpan satire...Ellis is, first and last, a moralist. Under cover of his laconic voice, every word in his three novels to date springs from grieving outrage at our spiritual condition... Ambition alone sets it apart from most contemporary fiction. Prudes, squares and feminist commissars aside, the rest of us should applaud Brat Easton Ellis for setting out in this noble and dangerous direction." -- Henry Bean, front page, Los Angeles Times Book Review "A masterful satire and a ferocious, hilarious ambitious, inspiring piece of writing, which has large elements of Jane Austen at her vitriolic best. An important book." -- Katherine Dunn "A great novel. What Emerson said about genius, that it's the return of one's rejected thoughts with an alienated majesty, holds true for American Psycho...There is a fever to the life of this book that is, in my reading, unknown in American literature." -- Michael Tolkin "The first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themes...[Ellis] is showing older authors where the hands have come to on the clock...He has forced us to look at intolerable material, and so few novels try for that anymore." -- Norman Mailer, Vanity Fair, " The Informers skillfully accomplishes its goal of depicting a modern moral wasteland. . . arguably Ellis's best." -- The Boston Globe "A post-modern Winesburg, Ohio. . . . Ellis's cleverness is on full display. . . . He has a keen ear for dialogue, a sharp eye for the moral bankruptcy of modern life, and a vivid imagination." -- San Francisco Chronicle " The Informers is spare, austere, elegantly designed, telling in detail, coolly ferocious, sardonic in its hum∨ every vestige of authorial sentiment is expunged. . . . Truly unsettling." -- The New York Times Book Review "Bret Easton Ellis. . . is an extremely traditional and very serious American novelist. He is the model of literary filial piety, counting among his parents Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion." -- The Washington Post, "The Informers skillfully accomplishes its goal of depicting a modern moral wasteland. . . arguably Ellis's best." -The Boston Globe "A post-modern Winesburg, Ohio. . . . Ellis's cleverness is on full display. . . . He has a keen ear for dialogue, a sharp eye for the moral bankruptcy of modern life, and a vivid imagination." -San Francisco Chronicle "The Informers is spare, austere, elegantly designed, telling in detail, coolly ferocious, sardonic in its hum∨ every vestige of authorial sentiment is expunged. . . . Truly unsettling." -The New York Times Book Review "Bret Easton Ellis. . . is an extremely traditional and very serious American novelist. He is the model of literary filial piety, counting among his parents Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion." -The Washington Post
