Less Than Zero

Bret Easton Ellis

Jun 2010 · Sold by Vintage

About this ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. • The basis for the cult-classic film "Possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." —The New York Times

They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college, he re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, 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.

Ratings and reviews

If you enjoy the works of Earnest Hemingway or Catcher in the Rye, give this a shot. Don't expect to find anything very deep here, but I think that might be the point.

This book is really just a long drawn out summer for a 19 year old coming back home to LA between freshman and sophomore year of college in New Hampshire.

Held my interest from page on. Interesting writing style. Book is so real; its depressing. What's the point, though. If I wanted depressing, I don't need it pointed out to me. I get it...

About the author

BRET EASTON ELLIS is the author of five novels, including Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park, and Imperial Bedrooms, and a collection of stories, The Informers. His works have been translated into twenty-seven languages. Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, and The Informers have all been made into films. He lives in Los Angeles.