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...
Details
19 January 2023336 pages
9781035012749Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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 hisVanity Fair
Ellis has always been regarded as th bad boy of contemporary American lettersDouglas Kennedy
A tour de force of the heart of darkness, a moral ArmageddonThe Times
