Paperback. Pub Date :2011-4-1 Pages: 195 Publisher:. Macmillan In 1985. Bret Easton Ell [is shocked. stunnedand disturbed with his debut novel. Less Then Zero Published whenhe was just twenty-one. this extraordinary and instantly infamouswork has done more than simply define a genre. it has become a rarething: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeitgeist.Itcontinues to be a landmark in the lives of successive generationsof readers across the globe Filled with re [entless drinking in seamy. barsand glamorous nightclubs. wild. drug-fue [lled parties. anddispassionate sexual encounters. Less Then Zero - narrated by Clay. an eighteen-year-old student returning home to Los Angeles forChristmas - is a fierce coming-of-age story. justifiably celebratedfor its unflinching depiction of hedonistic youth. its brutalportrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral dep...