Less Than ZeroNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. • The basis for the cult-classic film "Possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." —The New York Times They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college, he re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, 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. |
Contents
Section 23 | 114 |
Section 24 | 119 |
Section 25 | 134 |
Section 26 | 135 |
Section 27 | 136 |
Section 28 | 137 |
Section 29 | 140 |
Section 30 | 145 |
Section 9 | 51 |
Section 10 | 58 |
Section 11 | 59 |
Section 12 | 61 |
Section 13 | 68 |
Section 14 | 73 |
Section 15 | 75 |
Section 16 | 77 |
Section 17 | 89 |
Section 18 | 90 |
Section 19 | 91 |
Section 20 | 94 |
Section 21 | 95 |
Section 22 | 106 |
Section 31 | 146 |
Section 32 | 155 |
Section 33 | 159 |
Section 34 | 167 |
Section 35 | 177 |
Section 36 | 180 |
Section 37 | 184 |
Section 38 | 188 |
Section 39 | 192 |
Section 40 | 198 |
Section 41 | 207 |
Section 42 | 211 |
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