Less than zero
by Bret Easton Ellis and Christian Rummel
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Returning to Los Angeles from his Eastern college for a Christmas vacation in the early 1980s, Clay "reenters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine ... A raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation."--Back cover, Vintage Contemporaries ed. (1998).
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Drug addiction, Fiction, Friendship, Generation X, Young men, Young men -- Fiction., Drug addiction -- Fiction., Friendship -- Fiction., Generation X -- Fiction., Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction., Fiction, coming of age, Friendship, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, New York Times reviewed, American literature, Generation X., Generation x, Young men -- fiction., Drug addiction -- fiction., Friendship -- fiction., Generation x -- fiction., Los angeles (calif.) -- fiction.Places
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Less than zero
1998, Vintage Comtemporaries
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Less Than Zero (Picador Books)
July 1998, Pan Books Ltd
Paperback
in English
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0330294008 9780330294003
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"People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles."
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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 a world 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 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.
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