Less Than Zero Paperback - 1998
by Bret Easton Ellis
Clay comes home on break from his East Coast college to a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where the natives drive Porsches, dine at Spago, and gobble their Quaaludes from Pez dispensers. Where else can Clay go but down? "A teenage slice-of-death novel, no holds barred".--VILLAGE VOICE.
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Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait
of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in aworld shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money a place devoid of feeling or
hope. Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and 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 holidayturns 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.
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- Title Less Than Zero
- Author Bret Easton Ellis
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date 1998-06-30
- ISBN 9780679781493 / 0679781498
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1980's
- Cultural Region: Southern California
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Los Angeles (Calif.), Friendship
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97053236
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Entertainment Weekly, 06/04/2010, Page 28
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