Less than zero
Eighteen-year-old college student Clay is back in his hometown of Los Angeles for Christmas break. Clay is three things: rich, bored and looking to get high. As he reacquaints himself with a familiarly limitless world of privilege, along with his best friend and his ex, his shocking, stunning and disturbing adventure is filled with non-stop drinking in glamorous nightclubs, drug-fuelled parties, and endless sexual encounters. Published in 1985, when Bret Easton Ellis was just twenty-one, Less T…
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- Full title :Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis ; with an introduction by Ottessa Moshfegh
Summary
Eighteen-year-old college student Clay is back in his hometown of Los Angeles for Christmas break. Clay is three things: rich, bored and looking to get high. As he reacquaints himself with a familiarly limitless world of privilege, along with his best friend and his ex, his shocking, stunning and disturbing adventure is filled with non-stop drinking in glamorous nightclubs, drug-fuelled parties, and endless sexual encounters. Published in 1985, when Bret Easton Ellis was just twenty-one, Less Than Zero is a fierce coming-of-age story which quickly defined a genre. A cult classic beloved for its dogged portrayal of hedonistic youth and the morally depraved, this extraordinary and instantly famous novel is a landmark in modern fiction: an inventive, precocious and invigorating story of getting what you want when you want it.
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- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Picador
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
Notes
Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
The Physical Object
- Description:195 pages ; : 20 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781509870158, 1509870156
- oclc:on1084396663
- LC Classification:PS3555.L5937
- Dewey Decimal:813.6
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