Less Than Zero

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 comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of
limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, 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.

ISBN 0679781498   DEWEY FIC ISBN13 9780679781493 (What's this?)   Pages 208 Publisher Vintage Books USA   Volumes 1 Imprint VINTAGE BOOKS   Weight (grammes) 241 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 204 Publication date 01 Jun 1998   Width (mm) 133 Library of Congress 97053236

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