Less Than Zero

Less Than Zero

Paperback (10 Dec 1999)

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Publisher's Synopsis

L.A. in the early 1980s, a place deviod of meaning 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 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.

'This is the novel your mother warned you about. Jim Morrison would be proud' Eve Babitz, author of Slow Days, Fast Company and LA Women

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

'Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation' USA Today

About the Publisher

Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9780330294003
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Weight: 148g
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 12mm