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Award-winning author and close friend of Donna Tartt in Bennington College, Bret Easton Ellis’ 1987 novel The Rules of Attraction follows the lives of a group of bohemian students at a liberal arts college. Set in ‘Camden College’, New Hampshire in the 1980s, this black comedy examines the pains of misplaced love. Our protagonist Sean Bateman, a deeply cynical drug dealer and student at Camden, has recently fallen in love with the depressive Lauren Hynde whose ex-lover Paul Denton claims to also be in a sexual relationship with Sean. This unstable love triangle makes for an equally controversial and hilarious story of sex, drugs, and unrequited love.
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