Less than zero

Description

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.

First Sentence

People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.

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Other Editions

• Less than zeroVintage Comtemporaries1998-01-01
• Less than ZeroPicador1985-01-01
• Less than zeroPenguin Books1987-01-01
• Moins que zéroFrance loisirs1987-01-01
• Moins que zéroPaperback10-181988-04-01
• Less Than ZeroPaperbackPicador1995-08-04