Less Than Zero - Softcover

Ellis, Bret Easton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140088946 ISBN 13: 9780140088946

Publisher: Penguin, 1986

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

'Ellis...is always interesting...the beautiful one-liners are everywhere...the last line, which I will refrain from quoting, is terrific. It is also oddly satisfying - flattering, almost - to see the old Ellis magic applied to the popular culture of our era...Ellis remains a bold ignorer of literary boundaries. Imperial Bedrooms is but another unexpected swerve in a wonderfully weird career.'
--London Review of Books

Book Description:

The cult classic re-issued to celebrate its 25th anniversary, three months before the publication of the sequel

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140088946
• ISBN 13: 9780140088946
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208