{"product_id":"9781035085965-less-than-zero","title":"Less Than Zero","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe 40th anniversary edition of Bret Easton Ellis' cult classic debut novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 40th anniversary edition of Bret Easton Ellis’s cult classic debut novel, perfect for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh, Irvine Welsh and Sean Thor Conroe. With a new introduction by Rachel Kushner.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 1985, years before \u003ci\u003eAmerican Psycho\u003c\/i\u003e, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed the world with his debut novel, \u003ci\u003eLess Than Zero\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 40th anniversary edition of the cult classic novel 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Unstoppable . The impeccable timing captures the banalities of Clay’s life in a way that both disgusts me and breaks my heart’ \u003c\/b\u003e– Ottessa Moshfegh, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Year of Rest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEighteen-year-old Clay has come home to LA 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 California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished when he was just twenty-one, \u003ci\u003eLess Than Zero\u003c\/i\u003e held an excoriating mirror up to the culture of excess and vapidity of 1980s Los Angeles and made Bret Easton Ellis an instant literary sensation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘One of the most telling and striking chroniclers of the void beneath our consumerist society’ – \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Deadly serious social satires masquerading as generic pulp workouts’ – \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘He is the model of literary filial piety, counting among his parents Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion’ – \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55536208511350,"sku":"9781035085965","price":8.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34008222_29efdc60-7d2d-4f65-8fe5-6aa614fed8fa.jpg?v=1746091704","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781035085965-less-than-zero","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}