In 1985 Bret Easton Ellis shocked stunned & disturbed with his debut novel Less Than Zero Published when he was just twenty-one this extraordinary & instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre it has become a rare thing a cult classic & a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist It continues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across the globe Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars & glamorous nightclubs wild drug-fuelled parties & dispassionate sexual encounters Less Than Zero
- narrated by Clay an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas
- is a fierce coming-of-age story justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity & its author's refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour