The worst thing that probably ever happened to author Bret Easton Ellis is the success of Less Than Zero, his 1985 debut novel. Ellis was 21 years old when the book became a sensation, hitting the bestseller list and becoming a film starring Robert Downey Jr. and Andrew McCarthy.
If most writers find fame at all, it comes late in their careers. The year 1985, when Less Than Zero was published, also saw the release of Larry McMurtry’s Western epic Lonesome Dove. McMurtry had written six novels leaving up to that. Like musicians, novelists need to find their footing with early work that maybe doesn’t get a huge amount of attention. It allows them to find their voice and develop some depth.
Bret has a girlfriend, Debbie, but he is gay and sinks his pain with drugs and alcohol. His parents are absent, on vacation, leaving him in a gorgeous house with a swimming pool in Los Angeles. . Furthermore, Ellis has always used horror tropes in his work, and the Left’s defense of nightmares, like withholding care from a baby left alive after a botched abortion, is right out of Stephen King, who was a major influence on Ellis.
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