![]() ![]() ![]() Returning from university, Clay realises that there is no longer a place he can call home – he is adrift in a world of experience, without roots or refuge. This is an indictment of a world where the individual rules and where all are not equal. ![]() For the privileged, everything comes down to consumption food, music, sex, other humans' lives, all are simply fodder for experience, and yet not authentic experience. These young characters represent the hollow reality behind the American dream that was packaged and sent around the world as the standard to aspire to they stand as a warning against ruthless consumerism and mindless aspiration. Surrounded by vacant, beautiful youth with an abundance of cash and no direction, Clay is both part of this set and outside of it, observing the banality and casual destructiveness of the world around him. Clay spends his days jumping from tense family events and the numbing influence of MTV to drug-induced hazes and casual sex with interchangeable partners. In it he documents the life of eighteen-year-old Clay as he spends the winter holidays with his family, back from his prestigious college in New England. ![]() Less than Zero (1985) is Bret Easton Ellis's first novel. ![]()
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