why this controversial book (sold here in shrink wrap) still matters
- Written by: Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English, University of Sydney
Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho (dir. Mary Harron, Lionsgate Films, 2000).“I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.” That’s the novelist J.G. Ballard, explaining why he wrote what is arguably the most important novel of the 1970s, the scandalous Crash.
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