Less Than Zero Book
Less Than Zero is told from the first person perspective of Clay, the main protagonist. Clay is a rich college student returning to his hometown of Los Angeles for the winter break in the 1980s, during which he reunites with his friend Trent, a successful model.
Less Than Zero Book Summary
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After the reunion, he begins a streak of wild, drug-fueled parties, where he meets and has one-night stands with various men and women. In the process, he attempts to find his ex-girlfriend Blair and his best friend Julian. In between parties, he also goes on a vacation with his family, during which is the only one who cares that his grandmother is dying.
Gradually, he becomes disillusioned with the apathetic attitude his friends adopt towards the plights of the people around them. At another party, he and Blair are the only two repulsed by the snuff film that Trent screens.
Eventually, he is able to find Julian, who has now become a heroin addict and prostitute.
Nearing the end of the novel, Clay becomes isolated and alienates himself from the party scene. With the break ending, Clay returns to Camden College back in New Hampshire.
BOOK EXCERPT:
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, Less than Zero has become a timeless classic. 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. They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in 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.
Less Than Zero Book Synopsis
Product Details :
Genre | : Fiction |
Author | : Bret Easton Ellis |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Release | : 2010-06-09 |
File | : 208 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9780307756466 |
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