Less Than Zero
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4.0 • 359 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. • The basis for the cult-classic film "Possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." —The New York Times
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 Porsches, 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.
Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Written when the author was 20, this first novel tells the story of Clay, a New Hampshire college student who returns home to Los Angeles for Christmas vacation. Vignettes show Clay and his friends aimlessly traveling from party to party, doing drugs, having sex with one another. PW noted that Ellis "brilliantly conveys this crowd's delirium as well as the lack of fulfillment they cannot remedy.''
Customer Reviews
Very good for its time...
I've been putting off reading this for years. I should have read it in my early 20s. Maybe it didn't catch me at this age like it would have then. It is still a great read full of effect. Especially with the heroin epidemic we have nowadays.
Just not my jam
I’ve made it 65% through but I can’t do any more. There is no structure or plot to keep interest; one moment we are at a party, then someone’s house, and not a restaurant. We meet so many different characters that they begin to run together and I lose track of who is who among the names. I know many who enjoy this book, but it’s just not my style.
Movie was better
Yawn. Just boring