Less Than Zero

Bret Easton Ellis

Simon and Schuster, 1985 - Fiction - 208 pages

Clay comes home on break from his East Coast college to a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where the natives drive Porsches, dine at Spago, and gobble their Quaaludes from Pez dispensers. Where else can Clay go but down? "A teenage slice-of-death novel, no holds barred".--VILLAGE VOICE. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

About the author

Bret Easton Ellis was born in Los Angeles, California on March 7, 1964. He attended Bennington College. In 1985, at the age of 23, his first novel, Less Than Zero, was published. His other works include The Rules of Attraction (1987), The Informers (1994), Glamorama (1998), Lunar Park (2005), and Imperial Bedrooms (2010). His most controversial book was American Psycho, a book for which he received an advance in the amount of $300,000 from Simon and Schuster, who then refused to publish the book while under attack from women's groups in regards to the content of the book. It was later made into a feature film.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Less Than Zero; Contemporary American fiction; Wilensky-Ritzenhein Gay Book Collection
• Author: Bret Easton Ellis
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 1985
• ISBN: 0671543296, 9780671543297
• Length: 208 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / City Life; Fiction / Coming of Age; Fiction / Friendship; Fiction / General