Book review: Bret Easton Ellis’ The Shards is a pulsating bloody tell-all on the young and numb

The Shards is Bret Easton Ellis' first work in 13 years. PHOTOS: TIMES DISTRIBUTION, CASEY NELSON
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The Shards

By Bret Easton Ellis
Fiction/Swift Press/Paperback/594 pages/$32.40/Books Kinokuniya
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