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What is the name of Bret Easton Ellis's most controversial work?
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Ellis's most controversial work is the graphically violent "American Psycho". The book sold fairly well, though Ellis admits he felt he had "fallen off" after the novel failed to match the success of his debut effort, saying in 2012, "I was very obsessive, very protective about that book, perhaps overly so. "His most controversial work is the graphically violent "American Psycho", which Ellis has said "came out of a place of severe alienation and loneliness and self-loathing