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sounds so ambiguous. It's sort of out of my hands and it has its reputation, so what can you do about it? There's a lot of it that I wish was slightly more elegantly written. Overall, I was pretty shocked. It was pretty good writing for someone who was 19. I was pretty surprised by the level of writing.
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Another one of Blair's friends. She has an abortion and comes to Clay afterwards. Clay lets her stay in his room for the night while he lies by the pool until dawn. When he goes back up, she informs him she has bled a lot and feels weak before thanking him. When he asks "what for?" she says "I don't
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Daniel is another student who attends Camden and is from Los Angeles. Many of the characters think he's gay. In his earlier appearances, he was worried he had gotten a girl from Camden, Vanden, pregnant, but then doesn't seem to care. In his final appearance, he tells Clay he won't return to Camden,
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I read it for the first time in about 20 years this year—recently. It was so great. I get it. I get fan mail now from people who weren't really born yet when the book came out. I don't think it's a perfect book by any means, but it's valid. I get where it comes from. I get what it is. I know that
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One of Blair's friends. During the course of the book she's never sure where her film producer mother is and only knows what she reads in trade papers. At one point in the novel, she and Clay both agitate each other notably when they repeatedly question each other, "What do you do?", "What do you
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Due to all the liberties taken, Ellis refused to see the movie. In an interview, Ellis stated that he has warmed up to the movie, and appreciates it visually as a snapshot of a particular time. Ellis claimed that there was no connection between the book and the movie, except for the title, the
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with both sexes. While partying, he tries to track down his best friend from high school, Julian, with whom he hasn't spoken in months. In between descriptions of his days and nights, Clay recounts a vacation spent with his parents and grandparents, during which he seemed to be the only person
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After attending a concert with his friends, Clay accompanies them to an alleyway where they stare fascinated at the corpse of a young man, presumably dead by overdose. Afterward, Clay follows the group back to the home of his drug dealer Rip, who wants to show off his latest acquisition: a
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Clay has two sisters, aged 13 and 15, although his narration suggests he cannot distinguish between them and is unsure of their age. His parents are separated; his mother occupies their house while his father lives in an apartment. His mom has no job but nonetheless lives a life of
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Julian's pimp, who "helps" him pay off his drug debt. In public, he acts kindly towards Julian, calling him "Julie" and "his best boy" and often showing him off to his clients, but in private he abuses Julian emotionally and sexually and forces him to shoot up
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Clay ultimately tracks down Julian, who borrows a large sum of money from Clay. At first Julian says the money is for an abortion, but Clay doesn't believe him. Later when Clay asks Julian to pay him back, Julian brings him to meet his abusive
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Clay's ex-girlfriend who is studying at USC. Clay is unsure how he feels about her; neither has he been faithful to her. They vacation together and though at first they enjoy the experience, it eventually becomes tedious and ends on a sour
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in order to pay off a debt to unnamed drug dealers. Believing what he has been told, yet still feeling an empty desire to witness this awful scene for himself, Clay accompanies Julian to a rendezvous in a hotel room with a married
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Clay's friend from grade school and high school. Julian is often described as "thin" and many of Clay's friends declare him "completely fucked up". Julian has become a heroin addict and a prostitute.
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was set to executive produce alongside Craig Wright, who was also the series developer, and Brett Morgan was set to direct the pilot. However, Hulu chose not to produce a series based on the pilot.
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An anorexic girl who Clay visits at a rehabilitation center. She appears a few times in the novel, most notably at a New Year's party where she shoots heroin publicly while laughing and crying.
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whom Rip has been keeping drugged in his bedroom. When Clay tells Rip, "I don't think it's right," Rip says, "What's right?" Clay leaves, but Trent decides to stay so that he can participate.
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know" and leaves. When Clay flushes his toilet, it becomes clogged up with tissue and blood clouds the water. Clay puts the lid down as "there's nothing else for me to do".
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also appeared as an extra. In the film, Clay is an anti-drug crusader who returns home from college to try to rescue his friends from their various narcotics addictions.
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student named Griffin (pp. 35–39), and an unnamed female character (pp. 120–122)), but he goes through periods of apathy and longing for his girlfriend Blair.
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Now feeling completely isolated and with winter break coming to an end, Clay reflects on the brutal nature of his surroundings as he returns to college in
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came out, all my classmates were pissed. Not because it was an exact portrayal of our school – but because we failed to get any royalties."
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for Christmas and meets his old friends. He revives his old life: parties, concerts, drugs, sex, the city. Clay has brief affairs (a male
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of his friends towards the suffering of each other and those around them. At one party he watches as the revellers joke and take
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in June of 1985, she began the review this way: 'This is one of the most disturbing novels I've read in a long time.
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and its original reviews, stating: "Years ago people could have read some of your books and said, 'Oh, this is just
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opting instead to stay in LA and write a screenplay. (Vanden, who isn't seen in the book, later appears in
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A minor character who has a cameo speaking to Clay at Blair's Christmas party. He goes on to appear in
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The novel follows the life of Clay, a rich young college student who has returned to his hometown of
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Over time, Clay becomes progressively disillusioned with the party scene as he witnesses the
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has an extensive cast of characters; the ones listed play major roles throughout the novel.
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After reuniting with his ex-girlfriend Blair, and friends like Trent, now a successful
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do?", this ending with Kim finally replying, "Don't ask me because...I don't know."
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will be remade that Tarantino "has shown interest" in adapting the story.
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record (both a 1982 album and song). The book was published in 2010.
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was to become Ellis' first attempt at a proper novel, following much
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payments, and his dad is "in the film business", with an office in
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location of Southern California and the names of the characters.
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Ellis announced in 2005 that he would be writing a sequel to
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In January 2008, Ellis announced that his forthcoming novel
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The 18-year-old protagonist, a student at Camden College in
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in 2012 Ellis stated in a reply to a question of whether
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to watch the man and Julian have sex for several hours.
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businessman from Indiana, where he is compelled by the
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concerned that his grandmother was dying of cancer.
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Index

Clay (Less Than Zero)

Bret Easton Ellis
Literary fiction
Simon & Schuster
ISBN
978-0-14-008894-6
OCLC
13746073
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
Imperial Bedrooms
debut novel
Bret Easton Ellis
Bennington College
Elvis Costello
song of the same name
Los Angeles
first-person narration
model
one-night stands
apathy
Polaroids
heroin
snuff film
pimp
prostitution
closeted
john
sex slave

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