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Lunar Park

By Bret Easton Ellis

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| Hardcover | 9780375412912

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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,Continue

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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  • Who's fooling whom?

    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

  • Beauty and the beastly

    Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis Picador £16.99, pp308 Bret Easton Ellis's new novel is a curiosity, but not quite a failure. It's a postmodern ghost story about a writer haunted by his own past and his own literary creations. Stephen King has turned ... (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

  • 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 | Add your feedback

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