Twenty-five years on from, we pick up again with in 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with, his 'extraordinarily accomplished first novel' ("New yorker"), successfully chronicling the frightening con...Twenty-five years on from, we pick up again with in 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with, his 'extraordinarily accomplished first novel' ("New yorker"), successfully chronicling the frightening consequences of unmitigated hedonism within the ranks of the ethically bereft youth of 80s Los Angeles.