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The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis.
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In 1985, twenty-one-year-old Bret Easton Ellis jolted the literary world with his first novel, Less than Zero, and was hailed by more than one critic as the voice of the new generation. His subsequent...
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While still an undergraduate at Bennington College in Vermont, Ellis published his best-selling novel Less Than Zero. His books have endured literary criticism ranging from "infantile and sophomoric" ...
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Frequently disliked by reviewers, faulted for his youth and apparent disregard for political correctness, Bret Easton Ellis was the enfant terrible of 1980s fiction. His first novel, Less Than Zero (1...
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In the following review of The Rules of Attraction, Eder critiques Ellis's style and examines the author's themes.
Bret Easton Ellis' characters have an odd resemblance to Beatrix...
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In the following review, Spenser critiques the superficiality of Ellis' characters in The Rules of Attraction.
With his first novel, Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis made a name for himself he...
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