Set in Manhattan in the late 1980s, American Psycho spans roughly two years in the life of wealthy young investment banker Patrick Bateman. Bateman, 26 years old when the story begins, narrates his everyday activities, from his daily life among the upper-class elite of New York to his forays into murder by nightfall.

Bateman comes from a privileged background, having graduated from Philips Exeter Academy, Harvard (class of 1984), and then Harvard Business School (class of 1986). He works as a vice president at a fictional Wall Street investment bank, Pierce & Pierce (the same investment bank at which Sherman McCoy works in The Bonfire of the Vanities), and lives in an expensive Manhattan apartment on the Upper West Side . He embodies the 1980s yuppie culture. Through stream-of-consciousness narrative he describes his conversations with colleagues in bars and cafes, his office, and nightclubs, satirizing the vanity of Manhattan yuppies.

The first third of the book contains no......

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Title: American Psycho
Approximate Word Count: 565
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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