the beast and the brightest: sex and deceit at harvard

Students at Harvard are frequently called the best and the brightest, but deceit, sex, and betrayal among a group of graduate students turned them into beasts. This twisted story of three doctoral students and one woman, a would-be feminist whom one of these students loved, begins at Harvard then travels to Paris and back to Boston.

In Paris, three wonderful women befriend one of these students and support him through the hell created by the deceit of the woman he loved and the friends who betrayed him. Male friendship evaporates at the drop of a pair of panties. Cynical sex is a two-way street.