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The Shards is a 2023 autofiction/horror novel by American author Bret Easton Ellis, published on January 17, 2023, by Alfred A. Knopf. Ellis's first novel in 13 years, The Shards is a fictionalized memoir of Ellis's final year of high school in 1981 in Los Angeles.
Jan 17, 2023 · The Shards is a thriller about a serial killer and a mysterious new student in Los Angeles in 1981. It is the latest book by the author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms, and it explores themes of sex, jealousy, obsession and murder.
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Jan 17, 2023 · The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction, the real and the imagined, that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret’s life at seventeen—sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage.
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Jan 17, 2023 · The author of 'American Psycho' returns with a semi-autobiographical story of a serial killer in 1981 LA. He reveals how he uses horror to express his anxiety and confusion in his life.
Jan 14, 2023 · In his latest novel, “The Shards,” the author returns to his old tropes: gruesome murder, lonely teenagers and 1980s Los Angeles.
Oct 24, 2023 · Set against the intensely vivid and nostalgic backdrop of pre-Less Than Zero L.A., The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction, the real and the imagined, that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret’s life at seventeen—sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage.
Jan 19, 2023 · Hermetic, paranoid, sleek, dark — and with brief explosions of the sex and violence that have characterized Ellis' oeuvre — The Shards is a stark reminder that the author is a genre unto himself.
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