- Editorial:
- LIBROS EN INGLES
- Año de edición:
- 2010
- Materia
- Libros en inglés
- ISBN:
- 978-0-330-53383-6
- Páginas:
- 178
- Encuadernación:
- APAISADO
- Colección:
- Genérica
IMPERIAL BEDROOMS
EASTON ELLIS, BRET / EASTON ELLIS B
The novel opens with Clay, a 45-year old screenwriter, explaining that an author had adapted the events of his early-1980s Christmas vacation into a novel which later became a film. The author had been in love with Clay's girlfriend Blair, and depicted Clay somewhat differently from how he really is. The action of Imperial Bedrooms depicts Clay upon returning to Los Angeles, having lived in New York for four years, in order to assist in the casting of his new film. There, he meets up with his old friends, who were seen in Less Than Zero. Like Clay, they have all become involved in the film industry. His philandering friend Trent Burroughs, who has married Blair, is a producer while Clay's former classmate at Camden, Daniel Carter, has become a famous producer. Julian Wells, who was a male prostitute in Less Than Zero, has become an ultra-discreet high-class pimp representing struggling young actors who do not wish to tarnish future careers. Clay attempts to romance Rain Turner, a young woman auditioning for a role in his new film, leading her on with the promise of being cast, the while knowing she is too old for the part. His narration betrays that he has done this with a number of men and women in the past, and yet often comes out of the relationship hurt and damaged himself.
As the novel progresses, Clay learns that his old acquaintance Rip Millar, now disfigured by plastic surgery and more dangerous than ever, also had a fling with the actress. Throughout the novel, Clay is being stalked by an unknown person, and continually hears about the grisly murder of a young actor whom he knew; Clay disinterestedly watches the act of murder, which he later attributes to Rip, on the YouTube application on his iPhone. When Clay discovers that his former friend Julian is Rain's boyfriend, he assists Rip in having Julian murdered. The novel then depicts sequences involving savage sexual and physical abuse of a beautiful young boy and young girl, perpetrated by Clay. Clay does not experience guilt for this, for Julian's death, or for exploiting Rain; in fact, the opening exposition describes the circumstances of Julian's death detachedly, many pages before the murder is depicted. In the last scenes, his ex-girlfriend Blair transpires to have been the one hiring people to follow Clay, deluded in believing Clay is still the man she believed she knew and loved as a teenager in the 1980s.
