Synopsis
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.
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“Ellis has always been regarded as th bad boy of contemporary American letters”Douglas Kennedy
“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, The New York Times Book Review
“Compelling . . . sympathetic to his "lost generation" the way only Fitzgerald was about his”Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair
“A tour de force of the heart of darkness, a moral Armageddon”The Times, The Times
