The Informers
Bret Easton Ellis presents a series of connected stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, populated by rich, jaded characters who move through sex, drugs, and casual cruelty with little feeling. Movie executives, students, parents, and drifters circle one another in a world defined by money and emptiness, where connection seems impossible. The book shares the cool, flat voice and moral vacancy of Ellis's other work, including Less Than Zero, and some stories veer into the grotesque. It is a bleak portrait of a culture detached from consequence. Readers should expect graphic and disturbing material throughout, in keeping with Ellis's reputation for confronting excess and numbness, and the linked structure lets the same hollow mood echo from one story to the next.
What you might want to know about The Informers
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
A set of linked stories follows wealthy, numbed Los Angeles characters drifting through the 1980s.
It is a collection of linked short stories that share characters and a setting in 1980s Los Angeles.
Yes. It shares the same cool, detached voice and themes of wealth, drugs, and emptiness found in Ellis's earlier work.
The Informers was written by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1994 by Picador.
The Informers is 240 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Informers takes most readers 4 to 5 hours to finish.
The Informers is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
