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 cynicsm conceal - even from himself - his own romantic yearnings.