Less Than Zero

Beschreibung

In 1985, years before American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed the world with his debut novel, Less Than Zero.<BR><BR>This 40th anniversary edition of the cult classic novel contains an introduction by Rachel Kushner, the Booker Prize-nominated author of Creation Lake and The Mars Room.<BR><BR>'Unstoppable . . . The impeccable timing captures the banalities of Clay's life in a way that both disgusts me and breaks my heart' - Ottessa Moshfegh, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation<BR><BR>Eighteen-year-old Clay has come home to LA for Christmas break after his first term at college.

Clay is three things: rich, bored, and looking to get high. Reacquainting himself with a world of privilege and limitless indulgence, Clay steps back into the hedonism and moral depravity of his life in California.<BR><BR>With its relentless scenes of grotesque brutality, Less Than Zero is an unflinching portrait of a lost generation in revolt.<BR><BR>Published when he was just twenty-one, Less Than Zero held an excoriating mirror up to the culture of excess and vapidity of 1980s Los Angeles and made Bret Easton Ellis an instant literary sensation.<BR><BR>'One of the most telling and striking chroniclers of the void beneath our consumerist society' - The Guardian<BR><BR>'Deadly serious social satires masquerading as generic pulp workouts' - Esquire<BR><BR>'He is the model of literary filial piety, counting among his parents Ernest Hemingway, F.

Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion' - The Washington Post

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