A disturbing portrayal of privileged and immoral LA teenagers, Less Than Zero is the cult classic which made Bret Easton Ellis an instant literary superstar. Now reissued for its 40th Anniversary.
The 40th anniversary edition of Bret Easton Ellis’s cult classic debut novel, perfect for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh, Shelia Heti and Sean Thor Conroe. With a new introduction by Rachel Cusk.
'Unstoppable . . . The impeccable timing captures the banalities of Clay's life in a way that both disgusts me and breaks my heart' Ottessa Moshfegh, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and LapvonaIn 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed the world with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. This 40th anniversary edition contains an introduction by Rachel Kushner, the Booker Prize-nominated author of Creation Lake and The Mars Room.Eighteen-year-old Clay has come home to Los Angeles for Christmas break after his first term at college. Clay is three things: rich, bored, and looking to get high. Reacquainting himself with a world of privilege and limitless indulgence, Clay steps back into the hedonism and moral depravity of his life in Los Angeles. With its relentless scenes of grotesque brutality, Less Than Zero is an unflinching portrait of a lost generation in revolt.Published when he was just twenty-one, Less Than Zero held up an excoriating mirror up to the culture of excess and vapidity of 1908s Los Angeles and made Bret Easton Ellis an instant literary sensation.'The simplicity of the prose, the precision of his imagery, and the atmosphere of menace and cultural oblivion are invigorating . . . one of the most telling and striking chroniclers of the void beneath our consumerist society' Guardian'An extremely traditional and very serious American novelist. He is the model of literary filial piety, counting among his parents Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion' Washington Post
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
Unstoppable . . . The impeccable timing captures the banalities of Clay’s life in a way that both disgusts me and breaks my heart -- Ottessa Moshfegh, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Lapvona
The simplicity of the prose, the precision of his imagery, and the atmosphere of menace and cultural oblivion are invigorating . . . one of the most telling and striking chroniclers of the void beneath our consumerist society The Guardian
An extremely traditional and very serious American novelist. He is the model of literary filial piety, counting among his parents Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion The Washington Post
Bret Easton Ellis is the author of The Shards, American Psycho, Glamorama, The Informers, Less Than Zero, Lunar Park and The Rules of Attraction. His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He lives in Los Angeles.
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