Review
'I found Simon Rich's first novel, about an evil teenage billionaire, to be suspenseful and hilarious.' --Judd Apatow (Producer, Superbad, Knocked Up)
'One of the funniest books about high schoolers since The Catcher in the Rye.' --A. J. Jacobs (Author of The Year of Living Biblically)
'Fellow high school losers, use your video game money to buy this book!' --Gary Shteyngart (Author of Absurdistan, The Russian Debutante's Handbook)
'Rich is always funny, and he nails the bogus solemnity of high-school social politics.' --Kirkus Reviews
'An unfailingly funny and compulsively readable mix of sweet and sour that will leave readers hoping for another helping.' --Booklist
'A hilarious, high-spirited and hormone-fuelled romp through teenage angst and offbeat antics.' --Monocle
`Simon Rich's absurdist approach to the underdog archetype makes for a hilarious and heartwarming romp.' -- USA Today
`Clueless for boys ...studded with rococo set pieces of ruthless masculine one-upmanship... a joy to read' -- Daily Beast
`Delightful' -- Robert Chilver, Waterstone's Books Quarterly
'Funny, smart and generally bloody brilliant - read it.' --Heat magazine book club verdict
`A canny mixture of wish-fulfilment, fantasy and morality tale... The most enjoyable classroom comedy since Tom Perrotta's Election.' --Adrian Turpin, FT
`Scabrous, subtle and savvy' -- Literary Review
'One of the funniest books about high schoolers since The Catcher in the Rye.' --A. J. Jacobs (Author of The Year of Living Biblically)
'Fellow high school losers, use your video game money to buy this book!' --Gary Shteyngart (Author of Absurdistan, The Russian Debutante's Handbook)
'Rich is always funny, and he nails the bogus solemnity of high-school social politics.' --Kirkus Reviews
'An unfailingly funny and compulsively readable mix of sweet and sour that will leave readers hoping for another helping.' --Booklist
'A hilarious, high-spirited and hormone-fuelled romp through teenage angst and offbeat antics.' --Monocle
`Simon Rich's absurdist approach to the underdog archetype makes for a hilarious and heartwarming romp.' -- USA Today
`Clueless for boys ...studded with rococo set pieces of ruthless masculine one-upmanship... a joy to read' -- Daily Beast
`Delightful' -- Robert Chilver, Waterstone's Books Quarterly
'Funny, smart and generally bloody brilliant - read it.' --Heat magazine book club verdict
`A canny mixture of wish-fulfilment, fantasy and morality tale... The most enjoyable classroom comedy since Tom Perrotta's Election.' --Adrian Turpin, FT
`Scabrous, subtle and savvy' -- Literary Review
Book Description
Manipulative like Cruel Intentions, malicious like Heathers, competitive like Election, inept like Napoleon Dynamite, Elliot Allagash proves that everyone has a price
