The nihilistic story of a group of morally blank rich kids in Los Angeles, sleepwalking through casual sex, casual drug-taking and casual violence caused quite a stir. The son of a wealthy Los Angeles property developer, Ellis was just 21 and still a student at Bennington College in Vermont when his debut novel, Less Than Zero, was published in 1985 (He was in the same year at Bennington as Donna Tartt – her novel The Secret History is dedicated to Ellis). However, once we’re up and running, despite his claims of being strong-armed into this by his publisher, he’s chatty and relaxed. I’m pretty sure the fault is at Ellis’s end and I can tell he’s certain it’s at mine. Ellis is talking to me from his apartment in Los Angeles via the old-school medium of telephone after being unable to get Zoom to work.
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