Imperial Bedrooms

A reunion with old friends who have long become bitter enemies. Clay hasn't been in Los Angeles for twenty-five years, but now he must return to the city of his childhood and youth to promote a new film. At the very first party, he, the celebrated screenwriter, encounters his old friends. However, no one is particularly happy about Clay's return, and it quickly becomes clear that behind the friendly facade, everyone deeply distrusts one another: old stories and resentments intertwine with new suspicions, creating a dense atmosphere of paranoia and fear. Twenty-five years after "Less Than Zero," Bret Easton Ellis reveals in this novel how the hedonistic society of the eighties lives on today - and he discovers something dreadful: hardly anything has changed.