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The Rules of Attraction

The Rules of Attraction

by Bret Easton Ellis (Author)

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    Unabridged 2006

    $5.00

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    Paperback 2002

    $93.61

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    Hardcover 1999

    $3.35

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    Paperback 1998

    $16.28
Synopsis

In "The Rules of Attraction", Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College, a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s. He treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the centre of their lives. Racing from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Dressed To Get Screwed parties to drinks at The Edge of the World, this is a poignant take on the death of romance. "Inspired. A wonderfully comic novel." - Gore Vidal. "Compelling...sympathetic to his "lost generation" the way only Fitzgerald was about his." - "Vanity Fair." "One of the primary inside sources in upper-middle-class America's continuing investigation of what has happened to its children." - "New York Times." "Ellis has always been regarded as the bad boy of contemporary American letters." - Douglas Kennedy. "A tour of the heart of darkness, a moral armageddon." - "The Times."

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Format: Unabridged
 Pages: 336
 Edition: New Edit/Cover
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 03 Nov 2006
ISBN 10: 033044798X
ISBN 13: 9780330447980

Media Reviews
Inspired. A wonderfully comic novel. --Gore Vidal Ellis is, first and last, a moralist. Under cover of his laconic voice, every word in his [novels] springs from grieving outrage at our spiritual condition. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review 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
Author Bio
Bret Easton Ellis is the author of six novels, Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park and most recently Imperial Bedrooms, which was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, and a collection of stories, The Informers. His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He lives in Los Angeles.