'One of the most disturbing novets I've read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality'

'An extraordinarily accomplished first novel'

'The Cotcher in the Rye for the MTV generation'

'Remarkable. A kitler - sexy, sassy, sad'

In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Thon Zero. Pubtished when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timetess embodiment of the zeitgeist. Twenty-five years on, Less Thon Zero continues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generations of readers across the globe.

Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and gtamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fueUed parties, and dispassionate sexual. encounters, Less Thon Zero - narrated by Clay, an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas - is a fierce coming-of-age story, justifiably celebrated for its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth, its brutat portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral, depravity, and its author's refusal to condone or chastise such behaviour.