FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, JUNE 1998
Copyright © 1985 by Bret Easton Ellis
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, in 1985.
The author gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint the following:
Lyrics from “The Have Nots” by John Doe and Exene Cervenka. Copyright © 1982 Eight-Twelve Music. Used by permission.
Lyrics from “Stairway to Heaven” by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Copyright © 1972 Superhype Publishing. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Lyrics from “Crimson and Clover” by Tommy James and Peter Lucia. Copyright © 1968 by Big Seven Music Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Lyrics from “Straight Into Darkness” by Tom Petty. Copyright © 1982 Gone Gator Music (ASCAP). Used by permission.
Lyrics from “In the Sun” by Christopher Stein. Copyright © 1977 Jim Music, Inc. Used by permission.
Lyrics from “The Earthquake Song” by Carol Maso and Mick Walker. Copyright © 1981 John Fransome Music. Used by permission.
Lyrics from “Worlds Away” by Jane Wiedlin and Kathy Velentine. Copyright © 1982 Lipsync Music (ASCAP)/Some Other Music (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Data
Ellis, Bret Easton.
Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-75646-6
1. Young men—California—Los Angeles—Fiction. 2. Narcotic habit—
California—Los Angeles—Fiction. 3. Friendship—California—Los
Angeles—
Fiction. 3. Generation X—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3555.L5937L4 1998
813′.54—dc21
97-53236
Author photograph © Quintana Roo Dunne
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