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.
Author Biography
Bret Easton Ellis is the author of multiple novels including Less Than Zero, The
Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park and Imperial
Bedrooms, which was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, and a collection of
stories, The Informers. His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages
and several have been made into films. He lives in Los Angeles.