Literary Fiction/ 20th Century/USA...
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money a place devoid of feeling or hope.
Showing posts with label Less Than Zero. Show all posts
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Apr 30, 2019
Imperial Bedrooms (Less Than Zero #2) by Bret Easton Ellis
April 30, 2019 / in Bret Easton Ellis, Fiction and Fantasy, Less Than Zero / with No comments /
In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with "Less Than Zero", his 'extraordinarily accomplished first novel' ("New Yorker"), successfully chronicling the frightening consequences of unmitigated hedonism within the ranks of the ethically bereft youth of 80s Los Angeles. Now, twenty-five years later, Ellis returns to those same characters: to Clay and the band of infamous teenagers whose lives weave sporadically through his.
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