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.
Bret Easton Ellis’s masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized LA in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city.
LA, 1981. Buckley College in heat. 17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past.
Bret Easton Ellis is most famous for his era-defining novel American Psycho and its terrifying anti-hero, Patrick Bateman. Ellis proved himself to be one of the world’s most fearless and clear-sighted observers of society.
In White, his first work of non-fiction, Ellis offers a wide-ranging exploration of what the hell is going on right now. He tells personal stories from his own life.
Dylan Mint has Tourette's. Being sixteen is hard enough, but Dylan's life is a constant battle to keep the bad stuff in - the swearing, the tics, the howling dog that seems to escape whenever he gets stressed...
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists - he a photographer, she a dancer - trying to make their mark in a city...
Pierre e un uomo di successo. La sua azienda, Happy Croissants, produce dolci venduti in tutto il mondo e aiuta le persone a cominciare la giornata con il sorriso. Pierre, invece, non sorride da molto. Non sa piu cosa sia la felicita.
«Su fe en el destino mesiánico de las letras no reconoce límites. Ni admite broma, por supuesto. Un escritor así, siendo tan buen escritor, es dos veces bueno.»Gabriel García Márquez
Carlos Fuentes construyó Los anos con Laura Díaz a partir de las conversaciones sostenidas con sus dos abuelas, consiguiendo así que la novela abarque un lapso de 100 anos, desde 1868 hasta 1968.