Brett Ellis went to Buckley High School, the alma mater of Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie. He says he didn't really want to be in high school but thought it would help him get through his senior year. "I don't think necessarily the Brett Ellis of 17 or 18 cared that much about how nice it looked"
Los Angeles, 1981. A group of beautiful, rich, high school students are playing adult in their absentee parents' empty mansions, fueled by lust and prescription drugs, and filled with fear and disaffection. This is the world of The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis’ first novel in 13 years, part auto-fiction, part horror. The provocative and polarising author joins Alex Preston, award-winning author and journalist, to speak about the emptiness of adolescence, the lawlessness of the 80s, and how it feels to look back at it all aged 56 in 2023.
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