ISBN: 0375727272 9780375727276

Category: Fiction / Satire

Page count: 416

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>American Psycho</i> and <i>Less Than Zero</i> comes a chilling tale that combines reality, memoir, and fantasy to create a fascinating portrait of this most controversial writer but also a deeply moving novel about love and loss, parents and children, and ultimately forgiveness. <br><br>“John Cheever writes The Shining.” —Stephen King, <i>Entertainment Weekly </i><br></b><br>Bret Ellis, the narrator of <i>Lunar Park,</i> is the bestselling writer whose first novel <i>Less Than Zero</i> catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college. In the years that followed he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame, as well as dealing with the unexpected death of his abusive father.<br><br>After a decade of decadence a chance for salvation arrives; the chance to reconnect with an actress he was once involved with, and their son. But almost immediately his new life is threatened by a freak sequence of events and a bizarre series of murders that all seem to connect to Ellis’s past. His attempts to save his new world from his own demons makes <i>Lunar Park</i> Ellis’s most suspenseful novel.