With an introduction by novelist Ottessa Moshfegh

Eighteen-year-old college student Clay is back in his hometown of Los Angeles for Christmas break. Clay is three things: rich, bored and looking to get high. As he reacquaints himself with a familiarly limitless world of privilege, along with his best friend and his ex, his shocking, stunning and disturbing adventure is filled with non-stop drinking in glamorous nightclubs, drug-fuelled parties, and endless sexual encounters.

Published in 1985, when Bret Easton Ellis was just twenty-one, Less Than Zero is a fierce coming-of-age story which quickly defined a genre. A cult classic beloved for its dogged portrayal of hedonistic youth and the morally depraved, this extraordinary and instantly famous novel is a landmark in modern fiction: an inventive, precocious and invigorating story of getting what you want when you want it.

Less Than Zero Reviews

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 *

About Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis is the author of several novels, including Imperial Bedrooms, Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama and Lunar Park, and a collection of stories, The Informers. Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho and The Informers have all been made into films. His first work of non-fiction, White, was published in 2019. He is the host of the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast available on Patreon. He lives in Los Angeles.

Additional information

Sku

GOR011355890

ISBN 13

9781509870158

ISBN 10

1509870156

Title

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

Author

Bret Easton Ellis

Series

Picador Classic

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Year published

2019-03-07

Number of pages

208

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins