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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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Sean Bateman: A 21 year old college student from a wealthy family. He is the brother of Patrick Bateman (American Psycho), extremely promiscuous, and a heavy drug user. It is implied that he is bisexual.
- Lauren Hynde: A painter and fellow student. At the beginning of the novel, it is revealed that Lauren lost her virginity at a party during her freshman year at Camden, where she got so intoxicated that she passed out and was raped by two boys while unconscious.
- Paul Denton: He's a bisexual man who dates Lauren but is extremely attracted to Sean.
- Victor Johnson: Lauren's boyfriend who left school to backpack through Europe.
- Clay: "The guy from L.A."
- Rupert Guest: Sean's violent drug dealer.
First Sentence edit
and it's a story that might bore you but you don't have to listen, she told me, because she always knew it was going to be like that, and it was, she thinks, her first year, or, actually weekend, really a Friday, in September, at Camden, and this was three or four years ago, and she got so drunk that she ended up in bed, lost her virginity (late, she was eighteen) in Lorna Slavin's room, because she was a Freshman and had a roommate and Lorna was, she remembers, a Senior or a Junior and usually sometimes at her boyfriend's place off-campus, to who she thought was a Sophomore Ceramics major but was actually either some guy from N.Y.U, a film student, and up in New Hampshire just for The Dressed To Get Screwed party, or a townie.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Bret Easton Ellis (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: September 1987
ISBN: 978-0671622343
Page Count: 288
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: September 1987
ISBN: 978-0671622343
Page Count: 288
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- Dewey: 813.54
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