Characters in Less Than Zero

Clay (Less Than Zero)

The detached 18-year-old narrator, a college student who comes home to Los Angeles for winter break and drifts through its parties and drugs.

Rip (Less Than Zero)

A DJ and drug dealer with a Wilshire Boulevard penthouse, and a source of menace in Clay's circle.

Also in Imperial Bedrooms

Finn (Less Than Zero)

Julian's abusive pimp, who controls him through his drug debts.

Blair (Less Than Zero)

Clay's ex-girlfriend, a USC student who is still drawn to him while he stays emotionally distant.

Alana (Less Than Zero)

Another of Blair's friends, part of the privileged circle Clay moves through on his return home.

Griffin (Less Than Zero)

Daniel (Less Than Zero)

A fellow Camden College student from Los Angeles who moves in the same party circle as Clay.

Julian (Less Than Zero)

Clay's high-school friend, whose heroin addiction and mounting debts become the book's most sympathetic, troubling thread.

Also in Imperial Bedrooms

Trent (Less Than Zero)

A male model attending UCLA who stays on the fringes of Clay's story and grows increasingly callous.

Also in Imperial Bedrooms

Kim (Less Than Zero)

One of Blair's friends, present at the Christmas party and the drifting social scene around Clay.