Imperial Bedrooms

Bret Easton Ellis

Jun 2010 · Sold by Vintage

About this ebook

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to Less Than Zero, set on the seedy side of Los Angeles. • "A haunting vision of disillusionment, twenty-first-century style" (People). 

Returning to Los Angeles from New York, Clay, now a successful screenwriter, is casting his new movie. Soon he is running with his old circle of friends through L.A.’s seedy side. His ex-girlfriend, Blair, is married to Trent, a bisexual philanderer and influential manager. Then there's Julian, a recovering addict, and Rip, a former dealer. Then when Clay meets a gorgeous young actress who will stop at nothing to be in his movie, his own dark past begins to shine through, and he has no choice but to dive into the recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal.

Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards!

Ratings and reviews

The run-on sentence writ large; the only thing I got from this (thankfully library) book is that people who inhabit L.A. are shallow, fickle assholes, which seems to be the prevailing opinion anyway. If I had to choose a word, it would be "awful." Nice cover, though.

The characters are darker than they were in Less than Zero; it's like they sunk into utmost depravity and there's nowhere but downwards for them. You still have glimpses of them from before but wow. Still, good follow up and worth reading.

This book really messed me up.

About the author

BRET EASTON ELLIS is the author of Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, The Informers, Glamorama, Lunar Park, and Imperial Bedrooms. His works have been translated into twenty-seven languages. Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, and The Informers have all been made into films. He lives in Los Angeles.