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- <title>
- July 30, 1990: Sherman McCoy, Where Are You?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 30, 1990 Mr. Germany
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- Sherman McCoy, Where Are You?
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- <body>
- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
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- <p> Bret Easton Ellis, author of Less Than Zero and a leader of
- Manhattan's literary brat pack, has a novel due out next
- February that is already causing controversy. Staff members at
- Simon & Schuster who have read the manuscript, titled American
- Psycho, say it chronicles a young Wall Street banker who is
- involved in sexual perversities, murders, mutilations and
- diverse other grotesqueries and degradations. Robert Asahina,
- Ellis' editor, allows, "It is a book that can be at times
- upsetting to read." Some are so upset that they have balked at
- working on the novel. But Ellis has his defenders, one of whom
- calls the work, a tad redundantly, a bete noire Bonfire of the
- Vanities.
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- </body>
- </article>
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