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Hardback 608 Pages
Published: 17/01/2023
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A characteristically provocative blend of fact and fiction from the author of cult classic American Psycho, The Shards recounts disturbing developments during Ellis' time at prep school in graphic and utterly compelling style.

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Los Angeles, 1981 -17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends, even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equalled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with The Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence.

Can he trust his friends - or his own mind - to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, Bret spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between The Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision.

Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting and often darkly funny, The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret's life at 17 - sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage.

Publisher: Swift Press
ISBN: 9781800752863
Number of pages: 608
Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm

The Waterstones Podcast - Bret Easton Ellis

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Shooting to stardom with his debut Less Than Zero aged just 21 and courting controversy with his bestseller American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis returns with his first novel for 13 years, a fusion of fact and fiction called The Shards. We spoke with the author about notoriety, being a teenager and the similarities between writers and serial killers.

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“Worth the wait!”

I have been a fan of Bret Easton Ellis since I was in my late teens. I have read and re-read every single piece of work he’s produced, and I can’t express how excited I was about the Shards when it was announced. The... More

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“Totally Amazing!”

The author opens up with a section telling how it’s taken him some forty years to write this book. It is, he says, based on events he witnessed; acts of violence perpetrated on people he knew, friends. He discloses... More

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“The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis”

It's 1981 and Bret is starting his senior year at exclusive Buckley College, a private school for the children of LA's elite. Bret knows what he's going to do with his life when he graduates and... More

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