| Record Number |
809890 |
| ISBN |
9781509870158 (paperback) |
| 1509870156 (paperback) |
| Author |
Ellis, Bret Easton author. |
| Title |
Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis ; with an introduction by Ottessa Moshfegh. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Picador Classic, 2019. |
| ©2010 |
| Pagination etc. |
xiii, 195 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Picador classics |
| Contents note |
Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Subject |
Generation X -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction |
| Young men -- Fiction |
| Friendship -- Fiction |
| Drug addiction -- Fiction |
| Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
| Bildungsromans. |
| Added Author |
Moshfegh, Ottessa writer of introduction. |
| Shelf Location |
F ELLI |
