The New York Observer

Bret Easton Ellis' newest novel "Imperial Bedrooms" follows the same characters from his most famous novel "Less Than Zero."

In the sequel to his wildly popular cult classic novel Less Than Zero, author Bret Easton Ellis follows those main characters through their middle-aged lives in his new book Imperial Bedrooms. From the tortured and brutal world of drugs, sex and confusion of Less Than Zero, Ellis continues the journey into the human psyche and what it looks like 25 years later. Less Than Zero explored the uncertainty and fragility of the teenage years; now Imperial Bedrooms reveals that not much changes in middle-age. Can a character really mature with the author?

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Bret Easton Ellis, author of six novels, including Less Than Zero and American Psycho. His newest book is Imperial Bedrooms.