Less Than Zero

Published when he was just twenty-one, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with this extraordinary and instantly infamous debut novel. It has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist that continues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers worldwide. 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 author’s refusal to condone or chastise such behavior.195p.