Less Than Zero was adapted to the screen and produced by Twentieth Century Fox in 1987.Įllis's second novel, The Rules of Attraction, was published in 1987.
It attracted much critical and popular attention, and Ellis became a very public figure. Published in 1985, the novel appeared when the author was only twenty-one. His first novel, Less Than Zero, began as an assignment for a creative writing course, which was taught by the writer Joe McGinniss. He attended Bennington College in Vermont, graduating in 1986. On March 7, 1964, Bret Easton Ellis was born in Los Angeles, California. His detached and dispassionate view of the dissipation and corruption around him is often interpreted as a comment on modern-day society. Critics hailed it as the "voice of a new generation" and the "first MTV novel." The novel is narrated by Clay, a college student home on vacation, as he observes his friend slip deeper into drugs and prostitution. The story touches on themes of alienation, moral detachment, death, and nihilism in its portrayal of over-privileged youth in contemporary Los Angeles. As a result, its author, Bret Easton Ellis, was catapulted into the public eye. The book was a commercial success, and garnered much critical attention. In 1985 Less Than Zero burst onto the literary scene.
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