Read and discuss this modern classic - Bret Easton Ellis's debut novel rightly celebrated for its powerful portrayal of hedonistic youth
Highlights
- Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
- 5 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
- Read & discuss this coming of age story that helped to define a generation
- Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes
Practise and develop your English online in this 5 week English book club course using Less Than Zero by Brett Easton Ellis. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
The Book Club book
Published in 1985 when Bret Easton Ellis was only twenty-one, Less Than Zero is an extraordinary work - a cult classic and a timeless capturing of the 1980s.
It's a story of a hedonistic teenager, Clay who is returning home to Los Angeles for Christmas. With relentless drinking, wild parties, and dispassionate sexual encounters, Less Than Zero is a powerful coming-of-age story. However, the novel is not as shocking now perhaps as it was on publication - and indeed it is tame in relationship to his later work.
An extraordinarily accomplished first novel. ― New Yorker
The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation. ― USA Today
One of the most disturbing novels I’ve read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality. -- Michiko Kakutani ― New York Times
Geoff says:
"I think what's really surprising about Bret Easton Ellis's debut is how well structured it is. We feel anxious for the lead character, and there's a creeping sense of foreboding that comes out of what at first seems to be the shallowness of a hedonistic party lifestyle. Less than Zero might just be Bret Easton Ellis' best ever book..."
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| Age | 18+ |
| Online class size | Maximum 8 participants, on Zoom, using break-out rooms for increased speaking and discussion |
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