{"product_id":"breteastonellislessthanzero","title":"Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Bret Easton Ellis. Themes include Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Clay comes home to L.A. for Christmas vacation and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, 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. Morally barren, ethically bereft and tinged with implicit violence, \u003ci\u003eLess Than Zero\u003c\/i\u003e is a shocking coming-of-age novel about the casual nihilism that comes with youth and money. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e ‘An extraordinarily accomplished first novel’ \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e ‘One of the most disturbing novels I’ve read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality’ Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e ‘\u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e for the Mtv generation’ \u003ci\u003e Usa Today\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e ‘Remarkable. A killer – sexy, sassy, sad’ \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58001471373686,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9780330447973.jpg?v=1780398333","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/breteastonellislessthanzero","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}