Ellis Style does Less Than Zero

In 1985,when he was 21, Bret Easton Ellis published Less Than Zero, a novel about ‘‘a wealthy, alienated, sexually ambiguous young man’s Christmas break from an eastern college in Los Angeles’’.

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By Bret Easton Ellis

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In 1985,when he was 21, Bret Easton Ellis published Less Than Zero, a novel about ‘‘a wealthy, alienated, sexually ambiguous young man’s Christmas break from an eastern college in Los Angeles’’.

Heavily influenced by Joan Didion’s bleak California fable, Play It as It Lays (1970) - with its page-long chapters and free-form plot - Less Than Zero introduced the ...