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ISBN-10: 0679781498
ISBN-13: 9780679781493
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 06/30/1998
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.10" W, 0.70" H

Less Than Zero

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Overview

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.

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"One of the most disturbing novels I've read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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Details

ISBN-10: 0679781498
ISBN-13: 9780679781493
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 06/30/1998
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.10" W, 0.70" H
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