The informers - Bret Easton Ellis

The city is Los Angeles in the very recent past. The Informers chronicles the lives of a group of people, fusing their voices into an intense, impressionistic narrative that spans and blurs genders, generations and even identities - all of them suffering from nothing less than the death of the soul.

'The Informers shows the work of a writer at the peak of his powers, deeply concerned with the moral decline of our society. The book takes us from the first to the seventh circles of hell, from Salinger to De Sade.' Will Self, Standard

'Ellis is a very fine writer... [with] immense gifts for dialogue, off-the-wall-humour, merciless description and exotic bleakness.' Time Out

'The Informers is spare, austere, elegantly designed, telling in detail, coolly ferocious, sardonic in its humour; every vestige of authorial sentiment is expunged.' New York Times

'A well-observed and bleakly funny indictment of a culture saturated with money, cars and drugs, where the nearest things to spiritual values are health food and good looks.' Phil Baker, Times Literary Supplement

'A profoundly moral writer... Characteristically spare and hypnotic prose style which beats out these lives of quiet desperation with a slow pulse as gentle as it is compelling... Ellis has been compared to Fitzgerald and here we see why.' Modern Review