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Lunar Park (Part 1) - Bret Easton Ellis (CD)
Title: Title: Lunar Park (Part 1) Author: Bret Easton Ellis Genre: General Fiction / Literature Format: CD, 6 CDs (Unabridged) Synopsis: 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 fathers, his stepdaughters 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 sons 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. Review: Library Journal Ellis's shocking expos s of Reagan-era excesses and emptiness (e.g., Less Than Zero) have often been assumed autobiographical. Here, he goes one step further and becomes his own fictional character, inviting us into the rise of his literary career and sharing the demons that fueled his aspirations: his escape from a tyrannical father and his harrowing experience writing American Psycho, during which he feels he nearly channeled that novel's homicidal sociopath Patrick Bateman. Now Ellis, newly married to his old flame, is trying to become a family man-well, the kind of family man who hits on his students and binges on drugs and alcohol behind his wife's back. Nothing really reforms this unrepentant bad boy until spooky things start to happen: a student bearing an uncanny resemblance to Patrick Bateman appears, copycat Psycho murders begin to occur, and a child's toy comes menacingly to life. Does the story take a semi-paranormal turn, or is it simply Ellis's mounting paranoia? Ellis delivers for his fans and for the new guard of Palahniuk readers who will appreciate his straightforward prose and twisting plot lines. He even seems to have matured-or perhaps he is simply acknowledging that his best subject has always been himself. For larger public libraries.-Misha Stone, Seattle P.L. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.