Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis
Synopsis
With an introduction by novelist Ottessa Moshfegh
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.
An extraordinarily accomplished first novel.
New Yorker
The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation.
USA Today
One of the most disturbing novels I’ve read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality.
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
