The Informers

In this seductive and chillingly nihilistic novel, Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose moral badlands he portrayed unforgettably in Less Than Zero. “The Informers is spare, austere, elegantly designed, telling in detail, coolly ferocious, sardonic in its humour; every vestige of authorial sentiment is expunged... Truly unsettling.” - The New York Times Book ReviewThis time is the early eighties. The characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard over a car radio. They have sex with the same boys and girls and buy from the same dealers. In short, they are connected in the only way people can be in that city. Dirk sees his best friend killed in a desert car wreck, then rifles through his pockets for a last joint before the ambulance comes. Cheryl, a wannabe newscaster, chides her future stepdaughter, “You're tan but you don't look happy.” Jamie is a clubland carnivore with a taste for human blood. “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 PostAs rendered by Bret Easton Ellis, their interactions compose a chilling, fascinating, and outrageous descent into the abyss beneath L.A.'s gorgeous surfaces. A collection of stories on the dream factory that is Los Angeles and the nasty people it produces. In The Secrets of Summer, a man picks up women in bars with promises of cocaine and when they are stoned drinks their blood. By the author of American Psycho Een aantal inwoners van Californië weet niet wat ze met hun leven aanmoeten en geven zich als reactie daarop over aan het gebruik van cocaïne en valium