First published 1820
Los Angeles, 1980s. A group of beautiful, blonde young people sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs and one another with total abandon. They are the top of the heap - a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster - and the very bottom - a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con. They don't realize they're dancing on the edge of a volcano. The emotional core: These characters are adrift, chasing fleeting pleasures while the world crumbles around them.
Genres: fiction, drama, literary-fiction, contemporary
Vibes: dark, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: character-study, moral-decay
Setting: California, Los Angeles
225 pages · Paperback · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Content warnings: drug-use, sexual-content