false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1228584622m/2524608.jpg 9914 24 The City Is Los Angeles, in the very recent past. The birthplace and graveyard of American myths and dreams, it harbors a group of people trapped between the sybaritic beauty of their surroundings and their own damning moral impoverishment. The Informers is a chronicle of their voices -- fused into an intense, impressionistic narrative that spans and blurs genders, generations and even identities -- all of them suffering from nothing less than the death of the soul.<br><br>Each of the characters in this extraordinary book describes connections between people (classmates and best friends, sometimes dead; a decrepit rock star and his retinue; estranged or ex-husbands and wives, as well as their current, often improbable partners; sex dates and vampires) who remain in every important way strangers. A father inveigles his distant son into a holiday jaunt to Hawaii ... a car crashes in the desert, a plane goes down in the mountains ... a girl returns home to her future by cross-country train, while another spends her final days on the beach ... a couple visits the zoo, for the last time or not. In telling these stories, they escape or condemn or resign themselves, knowing that the bright veneer of their lives, blinding as sunshine, is not enough to help them; knowing also that they have little else to justify their presence in the world.<br><br>Bret Easton Ellis writes with absolute clarity and great depth of feeling about the struggle to find coherence in an environment that might well have lost it entirely. Savagely funny, poignant and uncompromising, The Informers unmasks both a city and an age. 1308950 1994 The Informers total:1786|5:248|4:524|3:661|2:275|1:78| 1786 5947 2382 128 642161 0679435875 9780679435877 33 5 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223661797m/642161.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/642161.The_Informers 3 3 false Mon Dec 03 12:25:34 -0800 2007 Wed Jul 23 13:03:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 641121 0679743243 9780679743248 263 31 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176646791m/641121.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/641121.The_Informers 5 1 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 09:05:55 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 09:06:25 -0700 2008
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Each chapter has a different character narrating...more...]]> 642161 0679435875 9780679435877 33 5 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223661797m/642161.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/642161.The_Informers 4 0 false Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 07:43:04 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 12:57:03 -0800 2008
"The door opens. It's a small bathroo...more...]]> 6519015 1423395840 9781423395843 2 1 3.33 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6519015-the-informers 2 0 false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 06:58:35 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 07:05:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 9914 0330339184 9780330339186 1427 85 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166110044m/9914.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9914.The_Informers 4 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 00:04:15 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 00:09:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 9914 0330339184 9780330339186 1427 85 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166110044m/9914.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9914.The_Informers 2 0 false Fri Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 26 03:08:28 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 03:12:51 -0700 2009
It's not a novel. More a collection of short stories with a sometimes common set of characters. Each chapter is from a di...more...]]> 9914 0330339184 9780330339186 1427 85 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166110044m/9914.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9914.The_Informers 2 0 false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jun 10 12:17:57 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 10:12:04 -0700 2009 once Grade: 6.5/10
Thoughts: This is probably one of the most messed up books I have read—next to Slaughter-House 5 and A Clockwork Orange. It was written in such a way that it made the reader go “what the fuck?” a lot. Instead of the characters holding care for others, they only cared about t...more...]]> 641121 0679743243 9780679743248 263 31 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176646791m/641121.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/641121.The_Informers 2 0 false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 20:11:37 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 18:29:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 9914 0330339184 9780330339186 1427 85 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166110044m/9914.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9914.The_Informers 4 0 false Sat Jan 24 00:56:05 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 23:51:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 9914 0330339184 9780330339186 1427 85 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166110044m/9914.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9914.The_Informers 1 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 04:55:34 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 05:01:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 642161 0679435875 9780679435877 33 5 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223661797m/642161.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/642161.The_Informers 5 1 false Fri Jul 13 18:00:05 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 18 01:26:27 -0800 2008 9914 0330339184 9780330339186 1427 85 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166110044m/9914.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9914.The_Informers 3 0 false Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 08:48:23 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 08:07:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 9914 0330339184 9780330339186 1427 85 3.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166110044m/9914.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9914.The_Informers 5 0 false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Oct 14 13:52:56 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 25 18:50:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2524608