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  People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.

  
  Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980′s, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait
  of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a
  world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money a place devoid of feeling or
  hope.

  Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of
  limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago,
  and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his
  best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay’s holiday
  turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy
  mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.

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