The Rules of Attraction
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Published:19th Jan '23
Should be back in stock very soon
A startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future - or even the present - who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle.
A startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future – or even the present – who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle.
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.
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 *
ISBN: 9781035012749
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 22mm
Weight: 240g
336 pages