num_pages: 208
description: Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation that experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, growing up in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money.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 Porches, 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 into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.
language: English
title: Less Than Zero
titlecomplete: Less Than Zero
characters: Kim (Less Than Zero), Griffin (Less Than Zero), Daniel (Less Than Zero), Finn (Less Than Zero), Clay (Less Than Zero), Trent (Less Than Zero), Julian (Less Than Zero), Rip (Less Than Zero), Alana (Less Than Zero), Blair (Less Than Zero)
genres: 20th Century, American, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 82706
places: Los Angeles, California, California
publisher: Vintage Books