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Ein Wiedersehen mit alten Freunden, die längst ärgste Feinde geworden sind. Fünfundzwanzig Jahre war Clay nicht mehr in Los Angeles, doch jetzt muss er zurück in die Stadt seiner Kindheit und Jugend, um einen neuen Film zu promoten. Gleich auf der ersten Party trifft er, der gefeierte Drehbuchautor, auf seine alten Freunde. Doch keiner freut sich so recht, dass Clay wieder auftaucht, und sehr schnell zeigt sich, dass hinter der freundlichen Fassade alle einander zutiefst misstrauen: Die alten Geschichten und Ressentiments verbinden sich mit neuen Verdachtsmomenten zu einer dichten Atmosphäre der Paranoia und Angst. 25 Jahre nach "Unter Null" zeigt Bret Easton Ellis in diesem Roman, wie die hedonistische Gesellschaft der Achtziger heute lebt - und er entdeckt Fürchterliches: Es hat sich kaum etwas geändert ...

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What´s become of Less Than Zero´s over-privileged teenagers? Bret Easton Ellis´s sequel Imperial Bedrooms takes us back to LA as they face an even greater period of disaffection: their own middle age.

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Clay is a successful screenwriter, middle-aged and disaffected; he´s in LA to cast his new movie. However, this trip is anything other than professional, and he´s soon drifting through a louche and long-familiar circle - a world largely populated by the band of infamous teenagers first introduced in Bret Easton Ellis´s first novel Less Than Zero. After a meeting with a gorgeous but talentless actress determined to win a role in his movie, Clay finds himself connected with Kelly Montrose, a producer whose gruesomely violent death is suddenly very much the talk of the town.

Imperial Bedrooms follows Clay as his debauched reverie is interrupted by a violent plot for revenge and his seemingly endless proclivity for betrayal and exploitation looks set to land him somewhere darker and more ominous than ever before.

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A murder mystery - a woozy, paranoid, hallucinatory version of LA noir. Sunday Times

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Easton Ellis, Bret
Bret Easton Ellis is the author of several novels, including Imperial Bedrooms, Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama and Lunar Park, and a collection of stories, The Informers. Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho and The Informers have all been made into films. His first work of non-fiction, White, was published in 2019. He is the host of the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast available on Patreon. He lives in Los Angeles.

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