Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation. They have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, and lived in a world shaped by nihilism, passivity, and too much money. "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.

(Key Words: American Fiction, Drugs, Los Angeles, Bret Easton Ellis, Literature).