The Shards

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Shards
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Bret Easton Ellis
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:608
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 153
Category/GenreRecommended Titles
General Audience
Previous Three Months
Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Thriller/suspense
ISBN/Barcode 9781800752450
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Swift Press
Imprint Swift Press
NZ Release Date 28 February 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Bret Easton Ellis is also the author of American Psycho, Glamorama, The Informers, Less Than Zero, Lunar Park and The Rules of Attraction. His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He lives in Los Angeles.