Although Ellis had been paid a substantial U.S. More than this, and unusually, condemnation of the work both actually preceded, and affected, its publication. That inflamed commuter summed up much of the furore that greeted the publication of American Psycho. As the event is also still remarkable this comment remaining the only remark ever made to me by a stranger about anything I have been reading during three decades of travelling on public transport. Now, almost fifteen years later, the memory is remarkably vivid. There was real vehemence in both her words and how they were delivered, and I can still see her eyes squeezing into slits as she hesitated while curling her mouth around that final angry word: ‘filth’. As she continued to make her way to the front of the vehicle, I was as stunned as if she had struck me physically. A disembarking passenger paused at my side and, as I glanced up, hissed, ‘I don’t know how you can read that filth’. 1991 An afternoon in late 1991 found me on a Sydney bus reading Brett Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (1991).
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