Less Than Zero

The 40th anniversary edition of Bret Easton Ellis’s cult classic debut novel, perfect for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh, Irvine Welsh and Sean Thor Conroe. With a new introduction by Rachel Kushner.

An extraordinarily accomplished first novel.

The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation.

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

Unstoppable . . . The impeccable timing captures the banalities of Clay’s life in a way that both disgusts me and breaks my heart

The simplicity of the prose, the precision of his imagery, and the atmosphere of menace and cultural oblivion are invigorating . . . one of the most telling and striking chroniclers of the void beneath our consumerist society

An extremely traditional and very serious American novelist . He is the model of literary filial piety, counting among his parents Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion

Bret Easton Ellis is the author of The Shards , American Psycho , Glamorama , The Informers , Less Than Zero , Lunar Park and The Rules of Attraction . His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He lives in Los Angeles.