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| Verlag | Vintage |
| Auflage | 1998 |
| Seiten | 208 |
| Format | 12,7 x 20,2 x 1,3 cm |
| Gewicht | 200 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Clay 1 |
| ISBN-10 | 0679781498 |
| EAN | 9780679781493 |
| Bestell-Nr | 67978149EA |
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, a best-selling novel follows a cast of upper-class, good-looking, oversexed, drug-addled, thrill-seeking, college-age characters on the road to perdition.
Klappentext:
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel now a timeless classic is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age.
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 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.
Rezension:
"One of the most disturbing novels I've read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times