{"product_id":"glamorama-9780375703843","title":"Glamorama","description":"\u003ch2\u003eGlamorama by Bret Easton Ellis\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Psycho\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLess Than Zero\u003c\/i\u003e delivers a gripping and brilliant dissection of our celebrity obsessed culture. - \"Arguably the novel of the 1990's...Should establish Ellis as the most ambitious and fearless writer of his generation...a must read.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSet in 90s Manhattan, Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn't been and with people he doesn't know. He's living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another on the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York City history. And now it's time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith the same deft satire and savage wit he has brought to his other fiction, Bret Ellis gets beyond the facade and introduces us, unsparingly, to what we always feared was behind it. Glamorama shows us a shadowy looking-glass reality, the juncture where fame and fashion and terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Novel\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGlamorama explores the intersection of celebrity culture, fashion industry excess, and the dark underbelly of fame in 1990s New York. Victor Ward navigates a world where appearances matter more than reality, where being photographed defines existence, and where the line between celebrity and terror blurs into something disturbingly familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis paperback edition from Vintage Contemporaries delivers Ellis's characteristic psychological depth and cultural commentary. The novel examines themes of identity, media obsession, and the cost of living in a world dominated by image and spectacle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLook for Bret Easton Ellis's new novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Shards\u003c\/i\u003e!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBRET EASTON ELLIS is the author of \u003ci\u003eLess Than Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rules of Attraction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Psycho\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Informers, Glamorama\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLunar Park\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eImperial Bedrooms\u003c\/i\u003e. His works have been translated into twenty-seven languages. \u003ci\u003eLess Than Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rules of Attraction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Psycho\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Informers\u003c\/i\u003e have all been made into films. He lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50680561369362,"sku":"9780375703843","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2ed0312e-2e19-424b-9e52-072f20aeece6.jpg?v=1734922789","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/glamorama-9780375703843","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}