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Glamorama

Bret Easton Ellis

2000481 pagesabout 7–11 hours
2000
first published
  • 1999Knopf · 481 pages · ENGISBN 9780375404122
  • 2011Pan Macmillan · 496 pages · ENGISBN 9780330536318
  • 1999Picador · 496 pagesISBN 9780330372091
  • 2000Robert Laffont · 537 pagesISBN 9782221089002
  • 2023Random House · 640 pagesISBN 9788439738084
  • 2000Vintage · 560 pages · ENGISBN 9780375703843
  • 2006Macmillan Publishers Ltd · 496 pagesISBN 9780330447997
  • Pocador · ENGISBN 9780330389693

In Glamorama, a young man in what is recognizably fashion- and celebrity-obsessed Manhattan is gradually, imperceptibly drawn into a shadowy looking-glass of that society, there and in London and Paris, and then finds himself trapped on the other side, in a much darker place where fame and terrorism and family and politics are inextricably linked and sometimes indistinguishable. At once implicated and horror-stricken, his ways of escape blocked at every turn, he ultimately discovers - back on the other, familiar side - that there was no mirror, no escape, no world but this one in which hotels implode and planes fall from the sky.

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