The Rules of Attraction

Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s, The

Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans

for the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a curious romantic t [...]
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Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s, The

Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans

for the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. Bret

Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College

and treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion

while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives.

Lauren changes boyfriends every time she changes majors and still pines for Victor who split for

Europe months ago and she might or might not be writing anonymous love letter to ambivalent,

hard-drinking Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren, even if he ends up in bed

with half the campus, and Paul, Lauren's ex, forthrightly bisexual and whose passion masks a

shrewd pragmatism. They waste time getting wasted, race from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours

to Dressed To Get Screwed parties to drinks at The Edge of the World or The Graveyard. The

Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance.