Summary of Bret Easton Ellis's White

By IRB Media

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#1 I had no desire to write a novel for the past five years, but out in the desert, between the notes calls and the fear tamped down by Xanax and tequila, the first paragraph of a novel began to take shape. It centered around the bone-white Emser Tile sign situated on a rooftop at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Holloway Drive.

#2 I’ve gone five or seven or eight years between books, and I’ve never forced a novel. I write in a way that works best for me, and I never give an audience what I think they might want.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822504448

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had no desire to write a novel for the past five years, but out in the desert, between the notes calls and the fear tamped down by Xanax and tequila, the first paragraph of a novel began to take shape. It centered around the bone-white Emser Tile sign situated on a rooftop at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Holloway Drive.

#2

I’ve gone five or seven or eight years between books, and I’ve never forced a novel. I write in a way that works best for me, and I never give an audience what I think they might want.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I was unusually attracted to horror movies as a kid growing up in the 1970s. I knew one or two believers who loved them as well, but for the majority of my friends in that movie-mad decade, horror was just another genre.

#2

I had a very active childhood, as I was left to my own devices most of the time. I was always on the move, from playgrounds to parks to pools to the beach, and from arcades to malls to the streets.

#3

I was a child of the 1970s who read Thomas Tryon’s horror novel The Other when I was seven years old. It shocked me because it was the first detailed murder I had ever read about. I wanted to know how the author had pulled this scene off.

#4

My parents were lenient about entertainment. R-rated movies were typically acceptable, and my father had no problems with the nudity or sex with a minor in National Lampoon’s Animal House.

#5

The laissez-faire attitude about content that was common in the 1970s is not acceptable today, but it was not unusual for children in the summer of 1976 to sit through multiple viewings of The Omen in a massive theater.

#6

I spent a lot of time in the theater watching movies in the 1970s,