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\n NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER\u00a0\u2022\u00a0A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial killer strikes across the city<\/p>\n

\u201cA\u00a0thrilling page turner from Ellis, who revisits the world that made him a literary star with a stylish scary new story that doesn’t disappoint.\u201d\u00a0\u2013Town & Country<\/p>\n

Bret Easton Ellis\u2019s masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city.<\/p>\n

Seventeen-year-old\u00a0Bret 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\u2019s obsession with Mallory is equaled 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\u2014and Bret in particular\u2014with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. The coincidences are uncanny, but they are also filtered through the imagination of a teenager whose gifts for constructing narrative from the filaments of his own life are about to make him one of the most explosive literary sensations of his generation. Can he trust his friends\u2014or his own mind\u2014to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, he spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between the Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Set against the intensely vivid and nostalgic backdrop of pre-Less Than Zero L.A., The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction, the real and the imagined, that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret\u2019s life at seventeen\u2014sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage. Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting, and often darkly funny, The Shards is Ellis at his inimitable best.

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ASIN \u200f : \u200e B09Y54MX5W
Publisher \u200f : \u200e Vintage (January 17, 2023)
Publication date \u200f : \u200e January 17, 2023
Language \u200f : \u200e English
File size \u200f : \u200e 2509 KB
Text-to-Speech \u200f : \u200e Enabled
Screen Reader \u200f : \u200e Supported
Enhanced typesetting \u200f : \u200e Enabled
X-Ray \u200f : \u200e Enabled
Word Wise \u200f : \u200e Enabled
Print length \u200f : \u200e 609 pages <\/p>\n

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Customers find the writing quality great, fluid, and spellbinding. They describe the book as engaging, thrilling, and entertaining. Readers praise the pacing as sleek, direct, and to the point. However, some find the length excessive and the sexual content gratuitous. Opinions are mixed on the plot, with some finding it riveting and suspenseful, while others say it drags on with barely a storyline.<\/span><\/p>\n

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