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The shards / Bret Easton Ellis.

Ellis, Bret Easton, (author.).

Summary:

Los Angeles, 1981, 17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends, even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equalled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with The Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. Can he trust his friends, or his own mind, to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, Bret spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between The Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision. Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting and often darkly funny, The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Bret's life at 17, sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593535608
  • ISBN: 059353560X
  • Physical Description: 593 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
Subject: Preparatory schools > Fiction.
Serial murderers > Fiction.
Male friendship > Fiction.
Teenage boys > Fiction.
Young men > Fiction.
Gay teenagers > Fiction.
Suspicion > Fiction.
Nineteen eighties > Fiction.
Men's friendships.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction.
Genre: Novels.
Autobiographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Bildungsromans.

Available copies

  • 55 of 57 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 0 of 0 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 57 total copies.
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Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library F ELLIS (Text) 39493110092725 Adult Fiction Available -
Andrews Public Library F ELL (Text) 80605003654729 Adult Fiction Available -
BHM Headquarters Library FIC (Text) 38344101717310 Adult Fiction Available -
Beaufort Main F ELLIS (Text) 34208900168690 Adult Fiction Available -
Bethlehem Branch F Ellis (Text) 34269001379628 Adult Fiction Available -
Black Mountain Library F ELL (Text) 0020660029172 Adult Fiction Available -
Bladen Main Branch FIC ELL (Text) 30441100937226 Adult Fiction Available -
Bordeaux Library F ELLIS (Text) 31781067677862 Adult Fiction Available -
Braswell Memorial Main Library FIC ELLIS (Text) 37807000053960 Adult Fiction Available -
Canton Library F Ellis (Text) 33115007700543 Adult Fiction Available -