Lunar park
Lunar Park is a novel by the American author Bret Easton Ellis . The German translation of the book was published in January 2006. The original American version was released on August 16, 2005. The narrator of the text is a character named Bret Easton Ellis and in some places coincides with the biography of the author of the same name.
Summary
The book begins with an apparently autobiographical outline of the life of the author Bret Easton Ellis. However, the further the narrator moves away from his birth, the more real facts and fiction become blurred. Already when describing the public intoxication after the publication of the books Unter Null and American Psycho in the 1980s, a life of the author is basically portrayed which is in no way inferior to that of the fictional characters in Ellis' earlier works in terms of lack of perspective and drug consumption. At the latest with the first mention of the fictional actress and alleged wife Jayne Dennis, of whom there are even fake fan pages to give the story the appearance of authenticity, and his also fictional son Robby (there is also an Internet presence here), Ellis then leaves Limits of reality. The attempt of the fictional character Ellis to gain a foothold in the east coast suburban world gradually fails. He works on a fictional novel called "Teenage Pussy", consumes drugs and denies this in front of his wife, finds no access to his biological son and stepdaughter Sarah; the family dog hates him.
Above everything hovers the conflict and the memory of his own father, Robert Ellis, with whom Bret Easton Ellis had no real relationship after the parents divorced.
The story continues to escalate, characters from the books by Bret Easton Ellis appear, in particular Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, and his stepdaughter's toy animal "Terby" (which is reminiscent of the famous Furby toy ) evidently develops a life of its own.
The further the story advances, the more doubts arise about the protagonist's sanity.