![]() ![]() What becomes crystal clear is that society at large is uninterested in the depth of human suffering that occurs around them. The through line that connects his work isn’t that sex and violence are taboo. It contains the thematic elements that run through Ellis’ oeuvre: the social lives of the wealthy, or nearly wealthy, drugs, sexuality and desperation painted over with bursts of violence. This is how it feels to read The Shards: not a detail is to be missed. “I happen to believe, yes, if it’s justified.” Such books are rarely justifiable, and often, novelists become buzzed-about simply for executing them, but not many can boast that every word, scene and sentence is necessary. “Should anyone even publish a 600-page novel?” asks its author Bret Easton Ellis. ![]()
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