<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in - universe style . Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective . (March 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in - universe style . Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective . (March 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Bateman works as a specialist in mergers and acquisitions at the fictional Wall Street investment firm of Pierce & Pierce (also Sherman McCoy's firm in The Bonfire of the Vanities) and lives at 55 West 81st Street, Upper West Side in the American Gardens Building (where he is a neighbor of actor Tom Cruise). In his secret life, however, Bateman is a serial killer murdering a variety of people, from colleagues to the homeless to prostitutes . His crimes--including torture, necrophilia, and cannibalism--are described in graphic detail in the novel . </P> <P> Bateman comes from a wealthy family . His parents have a house on Long Island, and he mentions a summer house in Newport . His parents divorced sometime earlier, while his mother became sick and now resides at a sanatorium . His father, who first appeared in Ellis' preceding novel The Rules of Attraction, grew up on an estate in Connecticut, and now owns an apartment in the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan . He is assumed to be dead as he is mentioned only in past tense during the novel . Bateman's younger brother Sean attends Camden College (and is a protagonist of Ellis' previous novel, The Rules of Attraction, in which Patrick Bateman was first introduced). Bateman attended Phillips Exeter Academy for prep school . He graduated from Harvard College in 1984 and Harvard Business School two years later, and moved to New York City . </P>

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