The Rules of Attraction
Published on 19. January 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-0350-1274-9 (ISBN)
Description
Incisive, controversial and startlingly funny, The Rules of Attraction examines a group of affluent students at a small, self-consciously bohemian, liberal-arts college on America's East Coast.
Lauren, who changes the man in her bed even more often than she changes course, is dating Victor but sleeping with Sean. Sean - cool, ambivalent and deeply cynical - might be in love with Lauren, but he's not going to let that stop him from bedding Paul. Paul, as shrewd as he is passionate, is Lauren's ex-lover and the final point in this curious triangle.
From the author of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis's The Rules of Attraction is a breathtaking tale of sex, expectation, desire and frustration.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
Lauren, who changes the man in her bed even more often than she changes course, is dating Victor but sleeping with Sean. Sean - cool, ambivalent and deeply cynical - might be in love with Lauren, but he's not going to let that stop him from bedding Paul. Paul, as shrewd as he is passionate, is Lauren's ex-lover and the final point in this curious triangle.
From the author of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis's The Rules of Attraction is a breathtaking tale of sex, expectation, desire and frustration.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
Reviews / Votes
Serves to establish Mr. Ellis's reputation further as one of the primary inside sources in upper-middle-class America's continuing investigation of what has happened to its children. * The New York Times Book Review * Compelling . . . sympathetic to his "lost generation" the way only Fitzgerald was about his * Vanity Fair * Ellis has always been regarded as th bad boy of contemporary American letters -- Douglas Kennedy A tour de force of the heart of darkness, a moral Armageddon * The Times *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 189 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
241 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0350-1274-9 (9781035012749)
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E-Book
12/2010
Picador
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Previous edition
Bret Easton Ellis
The Rules of Attraction
Book
04/2011
Picador
€32.37
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Person
Bret Easton Ellis is the author of several novels, including Imperial Bedrooms, Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama and Lunar Park, and a collection of stories, The Informers. Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho and The Informers have all been made into films. His first work of non-fiction, White, was published in 2019. He is the host of the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast available on Patreon. He lives in Los Angeles.