Russian Book Covers

Thanks to Konstantin for sending in these great Russian covers of Bret's novels. Below are Lunar Park and Less Than Zero.

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French Lunar Park Cover

This French cover for Lunar Park was very disappointing. Usually, the foreign covers are more interesting than the American originals - but not this one.

Thanks to Albedo for sending it in.

Spanish Book Covers

Thanks to Alejandro for sending in these Spanish covers of Less Than Zero, The Informers, and American Psycho. Pretty bland stuff really.

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Hungarian Book Covers

Thanks to Peter for sending in these Hungarian covers of Ellis' books. Everything is here except Lunar Park. Hover over each book if you aren't sure of its American title.

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American Psycho Foreign Covers

Via Marco here are a couple more international covers for American Psycho. The cover on the left is Romanian and the cover on the right is an Italian version.

The Italian version features a painting called The Feminist Husband (4th image in this Flash series).

Japanese Covers of Rules, Informers

Via Tristan, here are some Japanese covers of The Rules of Attraction (on the left) and The Informers. These were actually sent in a very long time ago, but I archived the email before I ever grabbed the attachments.

Russian Covers

Via Andrey, here are some Russian covers of Ellis' novels. All of these can be purchased at Ozon.ru if you like to collect the foreign covers.

This first batch is from American Psycho:

Russian covers of Glamorama and The Informers after the jump.

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Lunar Park Foreign Covers

Found a couple new covers for Lunar Park. I'm not sure whether these are hardbacks or paperback versions of the book.

The cover on the left is from Spain. There are a couple articles featuring this cover here and here, plus a picture of Bret holding a posterboard of the cover here.

The image on the right is from Portugal. For whatever reason, they appear to have put this book into the 'romance' category.

Lunar Park Paperback Cover

It appears that this grey cover is what we are going to get for the Lunar Park paperback cover. Amazon has picked it up as their official product image, and its been on the Vintage website for a few weeks now.

I had been holding out hope that this was just a preliminary design, or a placeholder until the real cover was unveiled - but no luck.

The paperback version is officially released on August 29th, 2006.

Lunar Park Paperback Tour, Cover

Random House has put up the remainder of the Lunar Park paperback tour dates. We also get a small image of what will apparently be the US paperback cover. Below are all the currently known dates:

9/24/2006
6pm UCLA Armand Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310-443-7038

9/26/2006
7:30pm Tattered Cover Bookstore
1628 16th Street
Denver, CO 80202
303-436-1070

9/27/2006
7:30pm Boulder Bookstore
1107 Pearl Street
Boulder, CO 80302
303-447-2074

9/28/2006
7pm Borders Books
3750 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53705
608-232-2600

9/29/2006
7pm Shaman Drum Bookshop
311-315 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
734-662-7407

10/2/2006
7pm Barnes & Noble
33 East 17th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-253-0810

10/3/2006
7pm Free Library of Philadelphia (Central Library)
1901 Vine St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-567-4341

10/4/2006
7pm Regulator Bookshop
720 9th Street
Durham, NC 27705
919-286-2700

10/5/2006
7pm Book People
603 N. Lamar Blvd.
Austin, TX 78703
512-472-5050

Lunar Park European Cover

Here is a European cover of Lunar Park.

Lunar Park Polish Edition

Thanks to Michal for sending in this image of the Polish version of Lunar Park.


After the jump are Polish versions of American Psycho and Rules of Attraction.
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French Book Covers

Here is a French cover for American Psycho that I hadn't seen before.


There is also an image of a variant French cover for The Rules Of Attraction thats kinda neat after the jump.
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Italian Cover For The Informers

Thanks to Matt, here is the Italian cover for The Informers. This book was actually re-titled in Italy to Acqua Dal Sole which translates to Water from the Sun. I believe this book was also re-titled elsewhere in Europe to Zombies.

Interview and Italian Book Covers

Andrew Billen interviewed Bret for The Times Online and I realized that I never posted it to the site. Included in the interview is the first definitive statements I've seen about who Michael Wade Kaplan was (the book is dedicated to him and Bret's father). As per usual though, the best is saved for last when Bret is asked about the scene in the book where he inherits all his father's suits only to find that the crotches are blood covered from a botched penile implant.

Assure me, I say, that that detail was made up. "No," he (Ellis) says. "That one's true." I blanch. "Sorry," he says, "you wanted to know."

Also, thanks to a comment left by Davidian in another thread, we now know what the Italian cover for Lunar Park looks like (pictured above). Its not bad, but certainly not great.

The Italian cover's for Bret's other books are after the jump.
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European Tour Dates

I don't know all of the European tour dates, but when I do, they'll be put here - and there will be a link to them in box on the top right hand corner of the site.

According to the official Netherlands BEE site, Bret is going to make an appearance in Koningsplein on October 15th at 3PM. [thanks Servaas]

I also notice that the Netherlands has a different book cover for Lunar Park than I've seen anywhere else - the moon is brown instead of grey, more of a harvest moon I guess. They also spell Bret's name wrong in the title and in alot of the head tags.

Here are the remaining foreign book covers from the site. Suprisingly nothing there for The Informers.

Limited Edition Lunar Park

There is a new limited edition, boxed version of Lunar Park that is going to be released in the UK on October 7th. You can order the book by clicking here or on the cover image below.

Final Lunar Park Cover

The 'moon cover' is apparently the official hardcover for Lunar Park. I also received an email (thanks Jamie) that said the ARC's with this cover have a notation on the back that it was designed by Chip Kidd.

The picture itself is called The Ocean of Storms and the Known Sea from Full Moon by Michael Light.

I still don't think this is a very good cover for the book, but it is growing on me.

More Lunar Park Covers

Couple more Lunar Park covers from various version of the advance reader copies (ARC's) that are floating around.

UK Lunar Park Cover

The UK Amazon site has another cover up for Lunar Park (Seb says this cover is French. Thanks!). I like this one even less than the moon cover I criticized previously. [Thanks to Dagobert for the tip]

Somebody go hire Chip Kidd!

Lunar Park On eBay

Advance reader copies of Lunar Park are showing up on eBay. As I write this, there are 6 available, including one where the seller spelled Bret's name with 2 T's. These are apparently bound copies, and a couple of different covers are being displayed - hopefully neither of which are the final version. [Thanks to Matthew for the heads-up]

American Psycho Liberty Cover

An unknown alternate cover for American Psycho.

UPDATE: Via email from Patryk. Thanks!

The cover is actually from a Polish edition of AP (out of print for quite some time now). To the best of my knowledge it was the only BEE book translated and published in Poland.

Alt American Psycho Cover

An unknown (Dutch - thanks T) alternate cover for American Psycho.

German Cover

Another German cover from Denmark (thanks Christian) for Less Than Zero.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 31

Venezuelan version of Glamorama.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 30

Belgian version of American Psycho.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 29

Japanese version of The Rules of Attraction.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 28

UK version of Glamorama.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 27

UK version of American Psycho.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 26

French version of Less Than Zero.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 25

French version of Less Than Zero.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 24

French version of Less Than Zero.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 23

German version of Less Than Zero.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 22

German version of Less Than Zero.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 21

European version of American Psycho. This cover is actually based on this illustration by Marshall Arisman.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 20

Spanish version of American Psycho.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 19

French version of The Rules of Attraction.

UPDATE Per reader Albedo, this is not a French version.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 18

French version of The Rules of Attraction.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 17

German version of The Informers.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 16

German version of The Informers.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 15

German version of The Informers.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 14

European version of The Informers.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 13

2nd French version of The Informers.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 12

French version of The Informers.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 11

German version of Glamorama. This is one of my favorites.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 10

2nd French version of Glamorama.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 9

French version of Glamorama. This is one of my favorites.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 8

Spanish version of American Psycho.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 7

European version of American Psycho.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 6

German version of American Psycho.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 5

2nd French version of American Psycho.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 4

French version of American Psycho.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 3

Note that this book was titled Simply Irresistible in Germany.

2nd German version of The Rules of Attraction.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 2

Note that this book was titled Simply Irresistible in Germany.

German version of The Rules of Attraction.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 1

Over the next three weeks, I'm going to be posting the foreign cover art from each of Bret Easton Ellis' novels. Foreign cover art has always interested me because I find it amazing that a novel can be packaged and presented so differently from one country to another.

This is a UK version of The Rules of Attraction.