![]() ![]() He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin.Ĭlay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college, he re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. The basis for the cult-classic film "Possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." - The New York Times.The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. The Shards, which comes in at a bit over 600 pages, is about a lot of things.More than one narrative, Ellis weaves in and out of multiple stories: Bret's relationships and secret homosexuality. ![]()
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