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An edition of Less than Zero (1985)

Less than zero

  • 3.4 (14 ratings)
  • 88 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 22 Have read

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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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Language
English
Pages
208

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Cover of: Menos que cero / Less Than Zero
Menos que cero / Less Than Zero
Sep 19, 2023, Debolsillo, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
mass market paperback
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Less Than Zero
2023, Pan Macmillan
in English
Cover of: Menos que cero / Less Than Zero
Menos que cero / Less Than Zero
Sep 19, 2023, Debolsillo
mass market paperback
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Less Than Zero
2019, Pan Macmillan
in English
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Moins que zero
Oct 04, 2011, France Loisirs
paperback
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Less Than Zero
Jun 14, 2011, Brilliance Audio
audio cd
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Less Than Zero
Apr 01, 2011, Picador USA, imusti
paperback
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Less Than Zero
2011-12-01, Macmillan
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Menos que cero
2010, Mondadori
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MENOS QUE CERO
Nov 03, 2010, DEBOLS!LLO
paperback
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Less Than Zero
2010, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
E-book in English
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Less Than Zero
Jun 04, 2010, Pan MacMillan
paperback
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Less Than Zero
May 17, 2010, Picador
hardcover
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Less Than Zero
Jul 11, 2006, Pan MacMillan
paperback
Cover of: Unter Null
Unter Null
Jan 16, 2006, Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH
paperback
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Minder dan niks
2005, Lemniscaat [In Between]
in Dutch
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Unter Null.
August 1, 1999, Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Paperback in German
Cover of: Moins que zéro
Moins que zéro
January 31, 1999, Christian Bourgois
Paperback in French
Cover of: Less than Zero
Less than Zero
1998, Vintage, Vintage Comtemporaries
Cover of: Less than zero
Less than zero
1998, Vintage Comtemporaries
in English - 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed
Cover of: Less Than Zero (Picador Books)
Less Than Zero (Picador Books)
July 1998, Pan Books Ltd
Paperback in English - Reissue edition
Cover of: Menos Que Cero
Menos Que Cero
September 1995, Anagrama, Editorial Anagrama
Paperback in Spanish
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Less Than Zero
Aug 04, 1995, Picador
paperback
Cover of: Moins que zéro
Moins que zéro
April 1, 1988, 10-18
Paperback in French
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Less than zero
1987, Penguin Books
in English
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Moins que zéro
1987, France loisirs
in French
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Less Than Zero
March 7, 1987, Random House Value Publishing
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Less Than Zero CST
Less Than Zero CST
May 15, 1986, Simon & Schuster Audio
Audio cassette in English
Cover of: Less than zero
Less than zero
1986, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Less than zero
Less than zero
1985, Simon and Schuster
in English
Cover of: Less than Zero
Less than Zero
1985, Picador
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3555.L5937 L4 1985

The Physical Object

Pagination
208 p. ;
Number of pages
208

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3020544M
ISBN 10
0671543296
LCCN
85000695
OCLC/WorldCat
11650489
LibraryThing
7164
Goodreads
531758

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1812917W

First Sentence

"People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles."

Work Description

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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