Less than zero - Bret Easton Ellis

L.A. in the early 1980s, a place deviod of meaning or hope. Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.

'This is the novel your mother warned you about. Jim Morrison would be proud' Eve Babitz, author of Slow Days, Fast Company and LA Women

'One of the most disturbing novels I've read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentay reality' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

'Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation' USA Today