Books by Bret Easton Ellis
Award-winning author and close friend of Donna Tartt in Bennington College, Bret Easton Ellis’ 1987 novel The Rules of Attraction follows the lives of a group of bohemian students at a liberal arts college. Set in ‘Camden College’, New Hampshire in the 1980s, this black comedy examines the pains of misplaced love. Our protagonist Sean Bateman, a deeply cynical drug dealer and student at Camden, has recently fallen in love with the depressive Lauren Hynde whose ex-lover Paul Denton claims to also be in a sexual relationship with Sean. This unstable love triangle makes for an equally controversial and hilarious story of sex, drugs, and unrequited love.
From our article Books like The Secret History
“It’s a brilliant satire of greed and the mindlessness of popular culture, of American life and of New York in the 80s.” Read more...
Jay McInerney, Novelist
Interviews where books by Bret Easton Ellis were recommended
Essential New York Novels, recommended by Jay McInerney
The author of Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney, tells us what changed after 9/11 and which books best capture the ambition, romance and creativity of New York. He chooses his list of “essential New York novels”
