In 'The Shards,' Ellis melds the horror of 'American Psycho' with the Sherman Oaks anomie of 'Less Than Zero.' It's a feast for fans, not much more.
fans, and her chilly, measured prose is a clear influence. “People were missing. Children were missing. Parents were missing. Those left behind filed desultory missing-persons reports, then moved on themselves.” This line from “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” could easily be the epigraph to “The Shards.”
,” once again guides Ellis’ characterization. Bret’s friends Thom and Susan and Debbie and Ryan are all rendered in the same two-dimensional style: To these cardboard cutouts in Wayfarers, “everything was cool, everything was chill, everything was a mild.” Ellis’ paratactic sentences compound the impression that life for them is just one thing after another. When a friend dies, “It sucks.”
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