The Books Oracle
by Bret Easton Ellis
Clay returns from college to his affluent Los Angeles home, drifting through a hollow landscape of parties, drugs, and casual cruelty among wealthy, disaffected youth. Ellis's debut novel presents a stark, detached portrait of 1980s excess and moral emptiness. The prose is deliberately flat, mirroring the protagonist's numbed alienation.
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