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Clay Series

This series plunges into the decadent world of 1980s Los Angeles youth, where sex, drugs, and disaffection intertwine with boundless privilege and moral decay. Follow young protagonists as they navigate opulent parties, the city's seedy underbelly, and personal crises. The narratives explore themes of nihilism, lost innocence, and the search for meaning within a superficial and often hopeless environment, frequently leading to unsettling and intense experiences.

Imperial Bedrooms
Less Than Zero

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  1. 1

    Less Than Zero

    • 208 pages
    • 8 hours of reading
    3.4(629)Add rating

    Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money a place devoid of feeling 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 Porches, 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.

    Less Than Zero
  2. 2

    Imperial Bedrooms

    • 192 pages
    • 7 hours of reading
    3.2(16956)Add rating

    Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle that will leave him no choice but to plumb the darkest recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal.

    Imperial Bedrooms