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GET LIT (ALL WEEK LONG): Win a copy of Bret Easton Ellis' Imperial Bedrooms

POSTED: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 2:00 PM

Welcome to Book Quarterly Trivia Week! From now till June 23, we'll be inundating you with opportunities to win free copies of books from our Summer BQ. For the first time in BQTW's history, we've got copies of every single book we've reviewed, previewed and shouted out (even in Icepack!). So keep an eye out at 9 a.m., noon and 3 every day for plenty of chances to win.

Knopf, 192 pp., $24.95, June 15

Let's cut to the quick here, people: I know you want a free copy of Bret Easton Ellis' long-anticipated Imperial Bedrooms more than any other book on our extensive list of giveaways. So let's do this. The author of Less Than Zero, American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction now brings us a Zero sequel in which Clay, now a screenwriter, has a few demons in his closet. Here's what CP critic Sam Kaplan had to say about the continuation:

Imperial Bedrooms returns to Less Than Zero's Los Angeles, where protagonist Clay is now a reasonably successful Hollywood screenwriter. He's working on a movie, seeing old friends and he's got a new girl, but he keeps getting texts from a blocked number that tell him he's being watched. Like in Lunar Park, the basic question is: What exactly happens to the characters you create, decades after you create them? There's another question, too, though: What has happened to Ellis' writing in the 25 years since Less Than Zero? To some extent the style here consciously mirrors that of Zero, but now everything seems a little darker, like it's not as much fun as it used to be, and there's a new emotional intensity that Clay seemed too cool to reveal before.

To win a copy (OK, and we'll throw in a copy of Less Than Zero, too, for good measure), answer the following trivia question:

Which two characters in Less Than Zero are married in Imperial Bedrooms?

E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win, and be sure to put "Imperial Bedrooms" in the subject line. Ellis not your bag? Check back later today for giveaways of Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad and the monster mashup Android Karenina. [UPDATE, 10:37 a.m.]: Congratulations to CritMass reader Elliott, who was super-quick to answer correctly that Blair and Trent have gotten hitched in Ellis' sequel.

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