Product Description

Imagine becoming a bestselling novelist while still in college, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, then seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, even as your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze and drugs. Imagine being given a second chance, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given. "Lunar Park" confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting psychological and supernatural horror toward an astonishing resolution - about love and loss, fathers and sons - in what is surely the most original and moving novel of an extraordinary career. '"Lunar Park" is great enough to suggest that his best work may now be ahead rather than behind him; it's a very interesting ride with an always interesting novelist'. - "The Times". 'Emotionally powerful, "Lunar Park" is an unnerving and funny puzzle of a book: undoubtedly the real thing, as it were.' - "Guardian". 'Bret Easton Ellis has finally delivered the classic novel he promised with his wildly successful debut, Less Than Zero.' - "Sunday Times".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26601 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-16
• Released on: 2006-06-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Independent on Sunday
‘Zipping along with that seemingly artless prose of his, it’s his most ambitious, least gory, most human novel to date’

Good Book Guide
‘Far and away Easton’s best novel since the incredible American Psycho’

Daily Telegraph
‘Full of bleak honesty and disarming wit… an ambitious, funny and never less than intriguing novel’

Customer Reviews

masterpiece
im a massive fan of ellis so i may be biased, but i believe this to be his greatest novel to date, i love the idea of the fictional autobiography which plays on ideas of what the media may believe his character to be. Then half way through the book it transforms into a kind of stephen king style horror....i loved every minute of this bizarre story, especially when patrick bateman appears to have become real....

Egotistical drivel
After reading American Psycho and been very impressed I was recommended this by a friend. Biggest reading disappointment so far.

I just couldn't get to grips with the narrative, a strange mix of 3rd person 1st person which just didn't work for me. Seemed very self-indulgent and the paranormal angle made the whole thing totally unbelievable (that is unless your a Derrick Accora fan). Sorry Bret I just didn't buy the whole residual energies taking over a kids toy...

funny scary brilliant
lunar park begins in what appears to be an autobiography, which then changes to become a homage to the great Stephen King. At some points you are laughing out loud, others you are scared, its only halfway through when you realise that it is in fact fiction and not an autobiography!
I particuarly liked his evil furby type character. Shame about the ending as the rest is fantastic