{"product_id":"less-than-zero-3","title":"Less Than Zero","description":"\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","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54763139563864,"sku":"9781035085965","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781035085965_30417260-dcf0-4761-b22b-4e062b5cac55.jpg?v=1777937421","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/less-than-zero-3","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}