This article is about the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. For the film based on the novel, see The Rules of Attraction (film). For the 2010 novel by Simone Elkeles, see Rules of Attraction (Elkeles novel).
The Rules of Attraction
Book cover for The Rules of Attraction
Author
Bret Easton Ellis
Language
English
Genre
Black comedy Satire
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication date
September 1987
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
283 pp hardcover, 288 pp paperback
ISBN
978-0-671-62234-3
OCLC
16082603
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 19
LC Class
PS3555.L5937 R8 1987
The Rules of Attraction is a satirical black comedy novel by Bret Easton Ellis published in 1987. The novel follows a handful of rowdy and often promiscuous, spoiled bohemian students at a liberal arts college in 1980s New Hampshire, including three who develop a love triangle. The novel is written in first person narrative, and the story is told from the points of view of various characters.
The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 2002. Ellis has remarked that among film adaptations of his books, The Rules of Attraction came closest to capturing his sensibility and recreating the world of his novels.[1]
^Bret Easton Ellis - The Onion A.V. Club interview, 22 April 2009.
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