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Lunar Park

By Bret Easton Ellis

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| eBook | 9780330535724

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Imagine becoming a bestselling novelist while still in college, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, then seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, even as your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze and drugs. Imagine being given a second chaContinue

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Lunar Park

Bret Easton Ellis ci racconta dello scrittore Bret Easton Ellis, a cominciare dal colpo di fortuna che gli capitò quando era ancora al college, allorché il suo insegnante di scrittura creativa rimase folgorato dal manoscritto di Less than zero. Quel ... (read full critics)

mangialibri published on Fri, 17 Feb 2012

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Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis 308pp, Picador, £16.99 The questions writers are most often asked at public events - apart from whether they use pen or keyboard and what they think of any films made from their books - are where they get their ideas f ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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It's mostly a story about father to son relationships, redemption, and facing the past.
The style is perfect. And the chic suburbs life might actually be the scariest thing in this book.
It's a little bit sleazy, it's funny, it's moving, it's terrifying, it's sad.
Lunar park is BEE's ... (continue)

It's mostly a story about father to son relationships, redemption, and facing the past.
The style is perfect. And the chic suburbs life might actually be the scariest thing in this book.
It's a little bit sleazy, it's funny, it's moving, it's terrifying, it's sad.
Lunar park is BEE's most approachable novel, less name-dropping, less sleaze, more plot, more emotion.

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My Darlin Clementine said on Mar 18, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

P H E N O M E N A L.

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Demonio Pellegrino said on Sep 22, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Wtf wtf wtf?!?
A voyeuristic, trippy ride.
I alternately both loved and hated this book: sometimes I thought it was brilliant, sometimes awfully tacky. Postmodern horror?
If you like it, go find the album 'Fear of a blank planet' by Porcupine Tree, inspired by this book.

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Sengaia said on Apr 27, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback