Description

Occur L A in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is just a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who've experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a global designed by informal nihilism, passivity, and too much cash a location without emotion or wish. Clay comes back home for Christmas vacation from his Asian school and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everybody pushes dines at Spago, Porches, and snorts hills of drug. He attempts to restore feelings for his partner, Blair, and for his closest friend from senior school, Julian, who's careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's vacation turns into a dizzying spiral of frustration that takes him through the persistent events in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock groups and likewise into the seamy world of L.A.