Closer

Closer is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis that explores the underground connections that drag George into the arms of men, such as John, Alex, and Steve. It is an unflinching exploration of the limits of experience and is still shocking after more than two decades.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 02 November 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

The last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction, Bret Easton Ellis, has written a novel that is both physically beautiful and strangely passive. George Miles, a teenager, attracts the attention of his fellow students, who ransack him for love, secrets, or anything else they can plausibly extract. The novel follows the subterranean connections that drag George into the arms of men like John, an artist who drains his portraits of humanity in order to find what lies beneath; Alex, fascinated by splatter films and pornography; and Steve, an underground entrepreneur who turns his parents' garage into a nightclub. Boys and men pass George from hand to hand, fascinated by the nightmarish intensity of his detachment, but soon he will be confronted by desires he may find harder to endure. Closer is an unflinching exploration of the very limits of experience. Still shocking after more than two decades, it is a provocative classic that assaults the senses as it engages the mind.

Weight: 132g
Dimension: 128 x 198 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800812895
Edition number: Main - Classic Edition