Less Than Zero

An extraordinarily accomplished first novel. * The 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 *Unstoppable … The impeccable timing captures the banalities of Clay’s life in a way that both disgusts me and breaks my heart – Ottessa Moshfegh, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and LapvonaThe simplicity of the prose, the precision of his imagery, and the atmosphere of menace and cultural oblivion are invigorating … one of the most telling and striking chroniclers of the void beneath our consumerist society * The Guardian *An extremely traditional and very serious American novelist. He is the model of literary filial piety, counting among his parents Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion * The Washington Post *

Bret Easton Ellis is the author of The Shards, American Psycho, Glamorama, The Informers, Less Than Zero, Lunar Park and The Rules of Attraction. His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He lives in Los Angeles.