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...He is soft-spoken, polite — the opposite of his Patrick Bateman-meets-enthusiastic junior analyst alter-ego....
...The author Bret Easton Ellis said in 2016 that if his novel American Psycho were updated for this century, its investment banker protagonist could “just as easily be a hedge-funder in New York: Patrick Bateman...
...[The rise and fall of the bank that built modern Switzerland — FT] A plutocratic parallel-universe Patrick Bateman whose perversion is for prolix memos rather than murder....
...Because he overdid the violence a tad, Bret Easton Ellis doesn’t get due praise for capturing this cast of mind — this need for speed — through the character of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho....
...Maybe the point is that there is no way out of this noxious capitalistic stew and we are simply all Patrick Bateman sitting under a tiny sign that reads: “This is not an exit.”...
...The real Litquidity is quiet, soft spoken and polite, the opposite of the account’s Patrick Bateman-esque persona. Being friends with Hank can be a dangerous game....
...In both cases, those styles came straight after periods of high-slung waists – look at the trousers of the 1970s or the 1980s power suits: Patrick Bateman, the prototypical yuppie of Bret Easton Ellis’s...
...Early-20th-century modernist furniture is so linked to ’80s style that when the film adaptation of American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis’s bloodthirsty satire of the decade – appeared in 2000, Patrick Bateman...
...That’s like Gordon Gekko and Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, Money by Martin Amis. It’s, like, it really is that sort of textbook caricature villain....
...Litquidity is Patrick Bateman meets James Bond — the smartest guy on the trading floor, a high-flying, hard-partying, slightly self aware Wall Street blue blood with a Hamptons summer share....
...(Kenza Bryan) Smart read As the co-head of investment at London-based Schroders, it’s no surprise that Rory Bateman has good things to say about the merits of active management....
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...The FT’s coverage of the American Psycho protagonist Patrick Bateman (“Dressed to Kill” and “‘There’s horror in family’”, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, August 21) included a humorous but unintentional irony....
...“Hip to Be Scared” flips Patrick Bateman’s MOR listening tastes in American Psycho into a bombastic guitar fury....
...It’s the colour of masculinity in crisis too, he says, whether the violence of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho or Reservoir Dogs’ killers, disappearing in their black suits....
...Even as an older member, upon entry to a restaurant with carpet or busy furniture, I instinctively brace for a naff experience, like Patrick Bateman in any eatery that isn’t Dorsia....
...Further reading Patrick Bateman beware!...
...American Psycho, his portrait of a banker as serial killer (if that’s what he really is: Patrick Bateman is an unreliable narrator) arrived at the peak of the appetite for transgressive fiction....
...They had ties and collared shirts, in a subdued, signature Armani palette of dusty, subtle navies and burgundies — a sentence that reminds me of Patrick Bateman, in American Psycho, debating between the...
...That leaves Austrian Patrick Bateman, 31 year-old Mr Kurz and newly-crowned Malaysian PM, 92-year old Mr Mahathir, as the standouts....
...Claims to fame The club is name-checked in many classic US novels: fictional members include Nick Carraway in F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Patrick Bateman in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho...
...Fun-loving father Patrick was an inventor whose zany gadgets still fill the house, such as a device that magically turns whole, unpeeled pineapples into pineapple chunks....
...But still there is no Kerouac-type voice of a generation, no Great Millennial Novel, no character such as Rabbit Angstrom or Patrick Bateman to embody the new social mores and rhythms of speech. Why?...
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