The Rules of Attraction (0)

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Bret Easton Ellis shot to fame with his first novel, Less Than Zero, written when he was twenty years old. The Rules of Attraction is his second, a compelling and controversial tale of student sex and romantic entanglements on a New England college campus.

Lauren, who changes her course subject every time she changes her sleeping partner, is the centre of a curious love triangle which involves the shrewd and passionate bisexual Paul, and Sean whose ambivalence and cynicism conceal - even from himself - his own romantic yearnings.

Through each of the characters' voices Ellis presents a kaleidoscopic view of clashing expectations and frustrations, of the dreams and tumultuous desires of youth. The Rules of Attraction paints a poignant and sometimes hilarious picture of the couplings and capitulations, the dramas and downfalls of American college life in the 1980s.