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sun surfer · 03-04-2014, 05:25 PM

I have a second book as well:

Written circa 1995-2006 (probably in the 2000s) and set sometime between the 80s and early 2000s, this book is set in NYC or thereabouts among the wealthy and fashionable crowd. All the details I can come up with are vague and/or uncertain, but maybe altogether someone will recognise it - It is either a satire, mystery or drama, or all three. There is a particular section where the main character or characters go to a party in an expensive apartment or house; I think it's the Upper East Side but it could be somewhere else. I don't remember much about the party except that people are vapid and hitting on each other or the feeling of the party is people trying to hook up with each other and maybe some casual drug use too.

For some reason I'm thinking it's in the same kind of league with Bret Easton Ellis. In fact, it could be from American Psycho if anyone can confirm that a scene just like that happens in the novel. Perhaps Bateman goes to a party or something and maybe meets a girl there. I've tried to look up summaries of the American Psycho but none seem to mention any party like that. But also, it seems like a separate book, as if I read it around the same time I read American Psycho and that's why they're connected in my mind (that would've been early 2000s).

I can also even vaguely see a cover and perhaps title. It seems like maybe the cover is bright, shiny pink, or pink has something to do with the story, and the cover has no picture but more of a graphic, and maybe the title is in bright, shiny yellow and in the middle of the cover and slanted diagonally going slightly up from left to right, something like that. Maybe it's a one-word title made from two words combined, something like "Star______" or "Glitter____" something like that. I'm sure there is a book with a cover like that but I'm not positive it's this book, though my hazy memory is telling me it could be. Google is no help for me. I looked at Ellis' other books and none seem right. The closest was "Glamorama" maybe but this book wasn't about satirical terrorism I don't think.

03-04-2014, 05:25 PM	#772
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