from Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis novels unfurl the vanity and vacuity of overexposed models and heirs in NY/LA. American Psycho got the most notoriety but for my money Glamorama is the funniest, strangest, most haunting Ellis effort.
The book's protagonist is first glimpsed in The Rules of Attraction, where he has a cameo as the object of Lauren's unrequited love. In Glamorama, Victor Johnson is a wisecracking heartthrob whom someone's trying to kill. Except he has chosen a Pynchon-esque nom-de-mode for himself: Victor Ward.
Drowsy on pills and booze and more fashionable than most of us could ever imagine, it's a given that people envy Victor Ward. But like a good Ellis character, he hates himself and is hurtling fast towards oblivion. It's almost like he's institutionalized in a fashionable milieu from which he can't escape: the victor ward.
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