American Psycho turns 30: What would Patrick Bateman look like today?

American Psycho turns 30: What would Patrick Bateman look like today?

Brett Easton Ellis' seminal novel turns 30-year-old this year. But what would the titular psychopath look like in a 21st century world?

Words: Joseph Bullmore

American Psycho is a book that takes the question: “what if the eighties was, like, a real, living person?” and runs with it for 399 pages. (Brett Easton Ellis won’t like that description, but then I’m beginning increasingly to suspect that Brett Easton Ellis doesn’t really like anything).

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