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CHICAGO LOOP by Paul Theroux (Random House; 196 pages; $20). With a lot more gore and a lot less talent, this novel could have shared some of the uproar that has descended on Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. Here is a wealthy, morally rudderless white male stalking through a city, in this case Chicago, looking for trouble. Parker Jagoda, a successful real estate developer, has a child in the northern suburb of Evanston and a sleek, sophisticated wife who works as a professional model and periodically arranges to meet him in hotels for ritualized bouts of fantasy sex. Still, Parker...
Here is the pseudo event not everyone has been waiting for: the publication of Bret Easton Ellis' controversial American Psycho (Vintage; $11), the sophomoric, overwritten satire of the yuppie '80s that contains the most gratuitous descriptions of sadistic murder and mayhem ever contained in a general trade novel. Simon & Schuster decided to surrender a $300,000 advance to Ellis and not publish his book after staff protests and press stories threatened risks greater than anticipated rewards. Snapped up at a bargain price by Random House for its Vintage division, the manuscript has undergone the editorial equivalent of liposuction...
Bleeder of the Pack American Psycho, the latest novel by brat-pack golden boy Bret Easton Ellis, 26, contained detailed descriptions of female mutilations that outraged women staff members at Simon & Schuster, Ellis' publisher. Did that give S&S second thoughts? Nope. But shortly before the book was to hit the stores, bad press notices finally persuaded the firm to scrap the project and forfeit the reported $300,000 advance...
...joke. Bret Easton Ellis, 26, author of Less Than Zero and The Rules of Attraction, emerges from the 1980s grade-B romance with uninhibited capitalism, shuts his eyes and imagines a childish horror fantasy about a Wall Street yuppie whose tastes run from nouvelle cuisine to the most appalling acts of torture, murder and dismemberment ever described in a book targeted for the best-seller lists...
...Bret Easton Ellis, author of Less Than Zero and a leader of Manhattan's literary brat pack, has a novel due out next February that is already causing controversy. Staff members at Simon & Schuster who have read the manuscript, titled American Psycho, say it chronicles a young Wall Street banker who is involved in sexual perversities, murders, mutilations and diverse other grotesqueries and degradations. Robert Asahina, Ellis' editor, allows, "It is a book that can be at times upsetting to read." Some are so upset that they have balked at working on the novel. But Ellis has his defenders...