Imperial Bedrooms

A reunion with old friends who have long since become the worst of enemies Twenty-five years Clay has not been back to Los Angeles, but now he has to return to the city of his childhood and youth to promote a new film. Right at the first party he, the celebrated screenwriter, meets his old friends. But no one is quite happy to see Clay reappear, and very quickly it becomes apparent that behind the friendly facade, everyone deeply distrusts each other: The old stories and resentments combine with new suspicions to create a dense atmosphere of paranoia and fear. 25 years after "Under Zero", Bret Easton Ellis shows in this novel how the hedonistic society of the Eighties lives today - and he discovers something terrible: hardly anything has changed ...