A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city. His first novel in 13 years, The Shards is Bret Easton Ellis at his inimitable best. Los Angeles, 1981 –17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends, even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equalled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with The Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. Can he trust his friends – or his own mind – to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, Bret spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between The Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision. Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting and often darkly funny, The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret's life at 17 – sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage.
© 2023 W. F. Howes Ltd (Ljudbok): 9781004109760
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 17 januari 2023
A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city. His first novel in 13 years, The Shards is Bret Easton Ellis at his inimitable best. Los Angeles, 1981 –17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends, even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equalled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with The Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. Can he trust his friends – or his own mind – to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, Bret spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between The Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision. Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting and often darkly funny, The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret's life at 17 – sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage.
© 2023 W. F. Howes Ltd (Ljudbok): 9781004109760
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 17 januari 2023
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A
22 apr. 2023
Bra bok, speciellt om man gillar hans andra böcker. Vet inte vad som är sant men många händelser förklarar inspirationen för hans andra verk. Uppläsningen topp!
Fredrik
26 apr. 2023
Outstanding. Mycket bra inläsning som knyter ihop berättelsen med författarpersonan. Spännande. Massor av detaljer och referenser - I love it.
Ingemar
22 nov. 2023
Gillade den skarpt. Bra story, bra tidsporträtt av tidigt -80:tal ”this means nothing to me”
Lizzie
21 juli 2023
Classic Ellis - unreliable narrator, homoerotic, privileged kids of 80s LA auto fiction. The ending was very ambiguous but enjoyed in very much nonetheless.
A
9 mars 2023
Jag vet inte men jag får en känsla av att boken är alldeles för lång. Han läser sin egen bok fantastiskt bra men jag väntar hela tiden på att något ska hända. Det gör det ju också men delar av boken känns som en transportsträcka.
Eva-Mia
17 nov. 2023
Wonderful writing. A coming of age story perfectly capturing what it was like to be young in 1981 - the synth and new wave music, the preppy style and classic eighties movies- but on steroids.
Josefin
17 feb. 2024
I truly enjoyed it, from start to finish. I liked the plot as well as the thoroughly explained details. As the author himself read the story and is the protagonist it seems less fictional than it is supposed to, which to me made me like it even more.
Tommy
9 jan. 2024
Repetitiv, omständlig och överdrivet effektsökande. Inte alls bra.
Louise
3 feb. 2024
Mästerlig och inte för känsliga läsare.
David
27 mars 2023
Grym uppläsning. Men ack vad man kunde korrekturläst den första hälften som tyvärr går på repeat.Mest intressant för Bret-fans?
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