NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex drugs and disaffection at too early an age. - The basis for the cult-classic film Possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality. --The New York Times They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism passivity and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college he 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. Look for Bret Easton Ellis s new novel The Shards!