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Представьте себе, что первый ваш роман, написанный в двадцать лет, стал международным бестселлером и символом поколения, а третий, «Американский психопат», вызвал такой скандал, что ваше имя сделалось нарицательным. Представьте себе, что вы наконец женились на голливудской звезде, десять лет назад родившей от вас сына. И можно было бы почивать на лаврах, только теперь вам кажется, что Патрик Бэйтмен восстал со страниц «Американского психопата» и вершит свое кровавое дело в реальном мире, а ваш отец — калифорнийский воротила от недвижимости, послуживший его прообразом, — пытается достучаться до вас из могилы. Но самый кошмар — что ваш сын поглощен лунными пейзажами и никак не идет на сближение.
Какими бы ужасными ни показались вам события «Лунного парка», знайте: все это чистая правда, от первого до последнего слова.

Представьте себе, что первый ваш роман, написанный в двадцать лет, стал международным бестселлером и символом поколения, а третий, "Американский психопат", вызвал такой скандал, что ваше имя сделалось нарицательным. Представьте себе, что вы наконец женились на голливудской звезде, десять лет назад родившей от вас сына. И можно было бы почивать на лаврах, только теперь вам кажется, что Патрик Бэйтмен восстал со страниц "Американского психопата" и вершит свое кровавое дело в реальном мире, а ваш отец - калифорнийский воротила от недвижимости, послуживший его прообразом, - пытается достучаться до вас из могилы. Но самый кошмар - что ваш сын…

Imagine becoming a bestselling 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…

Imagine becoming a bestselling 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…

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…

Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college. In the years that followed he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame, as well as dealing with the unexpected death of his abusive father. After a decade of decadence a chance for salvation arrives; the chance to reconnect with an actress he was once involved with, and their son. But almost immediately his new life is threatened by a freak sequence of events and a bizarre series of murders that all seem to connect to Ellis’s past. His attempts to save his new world…

He became a bestselling novelist while still in college, immediately famous and wealthy. He watched his insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box. He was lost in a haze of booze, drugs and vilification. Then he was given a second chance. This is the life of Bret Easton Ellis, the subject of this remarkable novel. Confounding one expectation after another, Lunar Park is equally hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking. It's the most original novel of an extraordinary career - and best of all: it all happened, every word is true. "An enormously entertaining novel, powered by a celebratory fun entirely absent in the…