Lunar Park
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 late father's, his stepdaughter's doll violently "malfunctions," and their house undergoes bizarre transformations both within and without. Connecting these aberrations to graver events--a series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his son’s age--Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace even as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania.
Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting horror, both psychological and supernatural, toward an astonishing resolution--about love and loss, fathers and sons--in what is surely the most powerfully original and deeply moving novel of an extraordinary career. - Amazon
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Probably my least favourite book from Ellis' repertoire. I sat there in disbelief as I was reading about supernatural activity in a Bret Easton Ellis novel. By no means a bad book, but certainly disappointing.
It's not the first time though, there was the vampire stuff in The Informers. That said, I also think it's my least favourite book of his. For some reason I just didn't like the use of past tense, it didn't quite fit.
Also my least favorite BEE novel. It started off good, but by the end, I was thoroughly disappointed.
I liked it. Especially the ending.
By the way, where can I get a Terby?
This was actually the first book I had read by him, unfortunately while reading it I was suffering from severe insomnia and sleep deprivation-my mind really started playing tricks on me and I started battling my own demons from my youth while reading. It was an unforgetable experience but I'm glad I hadn't been reading American Psycho
I read American Psycho first, and then this book. After my eight grade English teacher told my class the book was the "most disturbing" book he has ever read.After that, I read every other Bret Easton Ellis book, followed by every Jay McInerney book. Absolutely love this author!