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Copyright (c) 1991 by Bret Easton Ellis
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The Library of Congress
has cataloged the Vintage trade paperback edition as
follows:
Ellis, Bret Easton.
American psycho : a novel / Bret Easton
Ellis.
p. cm.—(Vintage
contemporaries)
I. Title
PS3555.L5937A8 1991
813’.54—dc20 90-10247
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