‘Imperial Bedrooms’ By Bret Easton Ellis


In his latest novel, Imperial Bedrooms, novelist Bret Easton Ellis revisits the beautiful, drugged-out, morally vacuous creatures of his bestselling debut, Less Than Zero.

Now Julian, Rip, Clay, Blair and Trent are 25 years older, but it seems, no wiser. Namely moved from New York to Los Angeles but still locked in a Dantesque limbo, they flit back and forth behind their sunglasses and tinted SUVs.

At a recent lecture on London’s Southbank-Easton Ellis commented that his debut, written when he was just 19, would have been a very different prospect if the characters all had mobile phones.

In the new novel he gets to incorporate our era’s new technology, with internet viral videos of supposed executions and death-threats-by-text-message.

Easton Ellis reads an extract from the opening of Imperial Bedrooms here.

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