{"id":844,"date":"2011-06-30T22:15:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T22:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=844"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:03:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:03:18","slug":"less-than-zero-by-bret-easton-ellis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-950 size-full\" title=\"Less than Zero\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Less-than-Zero.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Set in affluent Los Angeles, it is a raw and powerful portrayal of a generation of young people who have experienced sex, drugs and disaffection at too early an age.\u00a0 Clay, coming home to Los Angeles for Christmas vacation following his first semester at an Eastern college, tries to make sense of the life he\u00a0left behind.\u00a0\u00a0 Clay&#8217;s holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of\u00a0desperation that takes him through the rich suburban homes, the relentless parties,\u00a0the seedy\u00a0bars,\u00a0and glitzy rock clubs.\u00a0 \u00a0A shocking coming-of-age novel about the casual nihilism that comes with youth and money, <em>Less Than Zero <\/em>marked the stunning debut of the first voice of a new generation, Bret Easton Ellis.\u00a0\u00a0 It was also adapted into a movie in 1987, starring Andrew McCarthy, Robert Downey Jr., Jami Gertz, and James Spader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set in affluent Los Angeles, it is a raw and powerful portrayal of a generation of young people who have experienced sex, drugs and disaffection at too early an age.\u00a0 Clay, coming home to Los Angeles for Christmas vacation following his first semester at an Eastern college, tries to make sense of the life he\u00a0left &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=844\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-govie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}