Courtney Weaver in "The New York Times Book Review" (09/27/1998) says: "I found it...reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis on a bad holiday in Scotland."
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"[Fashion] struck me as being a great metaphor for what society is representing at the moment. Ninety per cent of the characters in the book are models, and I have a very sinister and angry feeling about models, especially the kind of reactions they inspire in people, including myself. This kind of lust mixed with awe and dread and insecurity. This book is my attempt to grapple with that emotion and control it in a way."
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Bret Easton Ellis published his first novel LESS THAN ZERO when he was 21 and still an undergraduate at Bennington College. The novel revolved around a young man who returns from college to Los Angeles and becomes disheartened by the moral vacuousness of his friends. Themes of apathy, disillusionment, and depravity would continue in his subsequent novels, notably AMERICAN PSYCHO, the story of a psychopathic yuppie murderer, which was made into a film starring Christian Bale. Ellis is also known more...
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1964 Los Angeles, Southern California, California, Pacific States, Western States, United States,
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Second novel from ellis dealing with relationships,drugs and all the pressures that come with them.
Also film version availiable....