{"product_id":"9781035085965","title":"Less Than Zero","description":"Author: Bret Easton Ellis\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035085965\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 29 Jul 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eUnstoppable \u003c\/b\u003e. . . The \u003cb\u003eimpeccable \u003c\/b\u003etiming captures the banalities of Clay's life in a way that both \u003cb\u003edisgusts me\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003ebreaks my heart\u003c\/b\u003e' Ottessa Moshfegh, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Year of Rest and Relaxation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLapvona\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIn 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed the world with his debut novel, \u003ci\u003eLess Than Zero\u003c\/i\u003e. This 40th anniversary edition contains an introduction by Rachel Kushner, the Booker Prize-nominated author of \u003ci\u003eCreation Lake\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nEighteen-year-old Clay has come home to Los Angeles for Christmas break after his first term at college. Clay is three things: rich, bored, and looking to get high. Reacquainting himself with a world of privilege and limitless indulgence, Clay steps back into the hedonism and moral depravity of his life in Los Angeles. With its relentless scenes of grotesque brutality, \u003ci\u003eLess Than Zero\u003c\/i\u003e is an unflinching portrait of a lost generation in revolt.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePublished when he was just twenty-one, \u003ci\u003eLess Than Zero\u003c\/i\u003e held up an excoriating mirror up to the culture of excess and vapidity of 1908s Los Angeles and made Bret Easton Ellis an instant literary sensation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003eThe simplicity of the prose, the precision of his imagery, and the atmosphere of menace and cultural oblivion are\u003cb\u003e invigorating . . . one of the most telling and striking chroniclers of the void beneath our consumerist society' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003eAn extremely traditional and very serious American novelist\u003cb\u003e. He is the model of literary filial piety, \u003c\/b\u003ecounting among his parents \u003cb\u003eErnest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46798801764510,"sku":"TLD-9781035085965","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781035085965.jpg?v=1778119467","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781035085965","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}