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Less Than Zero, the novel's protagonist, Clay, comes home to Los Angeles on break from his East Coast college. He reenters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where the natives drive Porsches, dine at Spago, and gobble their quaaludes from Pez dispensers. While home, Clay tries to renew his romance with his old girlfriend, Blair, and attempts to reestablish his close friendship with his best bud, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs, and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.