LUNAR PARK from Bret Easton Ei...

LUNAR PARK

from Bret Easton Eillis

Knopf, 2005

Ours is an age of terror and anxiety. Bret Easton Ellis' Lunar Park splices hijackings and dirty bomb with triumphs nailed to tree trunks, a scratching at the bedroom door.

upon a ghost hunt for our zeitgeist, Ellis leads us between the walls of pulp magazines and post-9/11 reality: security checkpoints at PTA meetings, children addicted to anti-anxiety mix with drugss

Ultimately, Ellis is a moralist. His fiction functions as prophecy, an indictment of society's slant toward placation. What's terrifying and correct about this book is the insistence that if you stare hard enough at the surface of things, something will stare back.

Spencer Dew of Chicago, is a close examiner at the University of Chicago's Divinity instruct

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