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 co
Less Than Zero
โ Scribed by Bret Easton Ellis,Bret EastonEllis
- Publisher
- Vintage;Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 1985;2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 93 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The cult classic reissued to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary.
Review
'It is all too relevant to teenagers today'
--Alastair Hutchinson in The Times
Book Description
In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist. It continues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across the globe. Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, Less Than Zero narrated by Clay, an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas is a fierce coming-of-age story, justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth, its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity, and its authors refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour. An extraordinarily accomplished first novel New Yorker The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation USA Today One of the most disturbing novels Ive read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780330539326
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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 co
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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 co