PSYCHO was initially received by audiences with shock and amazement-and it still terrifies today. But Momma doesn't like loose women, so the stage is set for this classic tale of horror-and one of the most famous scenes in film history. The young, well-intentioned Bates is introduced to the audience when Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), a blonde on the run with stolen money, checks in for the night. Bates presides over an out-of-the-way motel under the domineering specter of his mother. However, Hitchcock's black-and-white original, featuring Anthony Perkins's haunting characterization of lonely motel keeper Norman Bates, has never been equaled. Alfred Hitchcock's choreography of elements in PSYCHO is considered so perfect it inspired a shot-by-shot remake by Gus Van Zant in 1998. The spine remains undamaged.Credited with inventing the genre of the modern horror film, PSYCHO has had its share of sequels and imitators, none of which diminishes the achievement of this shocking and complex horror thriller. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. That the book's contents are shocking is downright undeniable, but just as Bonfire of the Vanities exposed the corruption and greed engendered in eighties politics and high living, American Psycho examines the mindless preoccupations of the nineties preppy generation. For its savagely coherent picture of a society lethally addicted to blandness, it should be judged by the highest standards. American Psycho is a beautifully controlled, careful, important novel.The novelist's function is to keep a running tag on the progress of the culture and he's done it brilliantly.A seminal book. Serious, clever and shatteringly effective.
Taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare - American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent.
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