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Less than Zero

By Bret Easton Ellis

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| Paperback | 9780679781493

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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.
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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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    Support this site! Get all your books by clicking on this Amazon link. Less Than Zero is Bret Easton Ellis' story of the privileged teenagers in 1984 Los Angeles. Clay has returned from college in New Hampshire. His Christmas breaks lasts 4 weeks. He ... (read full critics)

    thebookhaven published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010

  • Less Than Zero

    Less Than Zero is Bret Easton Ellis' story of the privileged teenagers in 1984 Los Angeles. Clay has returned from college in New Hampshire. His Christmas breaks lasts 4 weeks. He spends this time with his hometown friends. Their lives are filled wit ... (read full critics)

    thebookhaven published on Thu, 2 Sep 2010

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  • Its interesting; the book tries to portray the superficial habits of rich kids in western societies. It tries to illustrate the emptiness and the nonsense that leads to drugs and the results of being an addict. After having read other works by the same author, the style is not remarkable anymore... ... (continue)

    Its interesting; the book tries to portray the superficial habits of rich kids in western societies. It tries to illustrate the emptiness and the nonsense that leads to drugs and the results of being an addict. After having read other works by the same author, the style is not remarkable anymore... Bret E Ellis has a particular style, remarking the "branding" of everything on earth...

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    Espeluznao said on May 3, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • Sad; wish I hadn't read it. American Psycho (the movie) wasn't that good either, come to think of it. Except for the opening scene, which reminds me of my life.

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    Leebeck said on Feb 29, 2008 | Add your feedback

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