The Rules of Attraction

FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, JUNE 1998

Copyright © 1987 by Bret Easton Ellis

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, in 1987.

The author is grateful for permission to reprint material from the following works

“Love Is All Around” by Sonny Curtis Copyright Mark Three Music.

“Us and Them.” Words by Roger Waters Music by Roger Waters and Rick Wright.

TRO—© Copyright 1973 Hampshire House Publishing Corp. New York, NY.

Used by permission.

“California Dreamin’.” Words and music by John Phillips and Michelle Phillips. © Copyright 1965, 1970 by MCA MUSIC PUBLISHING, A Division of MCA INC., New York, NY USED BY PERMISSION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

“Walk Away Renee” (Mike Brown/Tony Sansone/Bob Callilli). © Copyright 1966 Alley Music Corp/Trio Music Co Inc All rights administered by Hudson Bay Music Inc Used by permission. All rights reserved.

“One Fine Day” by Goffin/King. Copyright © 1963 by SCREEN GEMS-EMI MUSIC INC. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien. Copyright © 1978 by Tim O’Brien. Reprinted by permission of DELACORTE PRESS/SEYMOUR LAWRENCE.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ellis, Bret Easton.

The rules of attraction / Bret Easton Ellis,

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-75645-9

1. College students — Fiction I. Title.

PS3555.L5937R8 1998

813′.54—dc21

98-4952

Author photograph © Quintana Roo Dunne

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