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Review Of Lunar Park

This was posted in the comments of an older entry by Frank, who happens to have gotten his hands on a manuscript for Ellis' new novel. I thought it was worth bringing up to the front page for everyone to see, so here's his short review/summary:

I finished reading Lunar Park today. Regarding the person's comment above who works at a film company, what they said is incorrect. There's nothing old-fashioned about this story, and BEE is not playing a reformed version of himself, whatever that means. He is the main character and the first 30 pages or so is nothing but biographical information on him, and then the actual story begins where the bio leaves off. The story takes us on a supernatural haunted house joyride with a disconnected upper class family and a little girl's extremely creepy stuffed animal. Bateman makes a return, and Bret the narrator speaks in a post-Fight Club narration of an unsolved mystery. This feels very different than his other novels and is much more mature, even bittersweet by the touching end. Finishing the last page reminds me again that I wish BEE would write faster. Getting material this good so infrequently is blessing and a curse. I'm going to be letting this one settle for a while.

None of this is officially confirmed, but Frank is now the third person I've been in contact with regarding Lunar Park, and all three have consistent information about the book.