Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis [FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK] 1985

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1985] SIMON & SCHUSTER

*DAMAGED -see photos & Description -- Rare First trade paperback printing w/ same artwork as the hardcover first edition. 

Water damage to pages, still readable but w/ water stains visible on top of text block and on page margins [see photos] -- some rippling to pages near tail end.

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.