White / Bret Easton Ellis.

"Combining personal reflection and social observation, Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction is an incendiary polemic about this young century's failings, e-driven and otherwise, and at once an example, definition, and defense of what 'freedom of speech' truly means. Bret Easton Ellis has wre...

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Main Author: Ellis, Bret Easton (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
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Physical Description:261 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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