Description
Set at a privileged New England college in the 1980s, this provocative novel follows a shifting cast of students whose lives intersect through desire, boredom, substance abuse, and emotional detachment. Told through fragmented, overlapping perspectives, it portrays a generation of attractive young people searching for sex, status, and connection while remaining largely incapable of genuine intimacy. With its run-on rhythms, pop-cultural references, dark humor, and unsparing social observation, the novel explores alienation, narcissism, privilege, and the corrosive emptiness beneath collegiate freedom.
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paperback
Vintage Contemporaries
Published Jan 1, 1998
283 pages
ISBN: 9780679781486
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Details
First Published
1987
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis.