Less Than Zero - Thursdays from 9th May

Published in 1985 when Bret Easton Ellis was only twenty-one, Less Than Zero is an extraordinary work - a cult classic and a timeless capturing of the 1980s. 

It's a story of a hedonistic teenager, Clay who is returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas. With relentless drinking, wild parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, Less Than Zero is a powerful coming-of-age story.  However, the novel is not as shocking now perhaps as it was on publication - and indeed it is tame in relationship to his later work.

An extraordinarily accomplished first novel. ― New Yorker

The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation. ― USA Today

One of the most disturbing novels I’ve read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality. -- Michiko Kakutani ― New York Times

Geoff says:

"I think what's really surprising about Bret Easton Ellis's debut is how well structured it is.  We feel anxious for the lead character, and there's a creeping sense of foreboding that comes out of what at first seems to be the shallowness of a hedonistic party lifestyle.  Less than Zero might just be Bret Easton Ellis' best ever book..."