Less Than Zero -- Bret Easton Ellis, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel--now a timeless classic--is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age.

They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college, he re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin.

Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.

Author: Bret Easton Ellis
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/30/1998
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.17w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780679781493

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 03/26/2010 pg. 75
Entertainment Weekly 06/04/2010 pg. 28

About the Author
Bret Easton Ellis is the author of five novels, including Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park, and Imperial Bedrooms, and a collection of stories, The Informers. His works have been translated into twenty-seven languages. Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, and The Informers have all been made into films. He lives in Los Angeles.