At age 21 his first novel made him a Californian celebrity. It also made him slightly millionaire.
He titled it Less Than Zero (title also of a bitter song by Elvis Costello) He wrote it between the ages of 17 and 18, in the last two years of high school. The result of returning to look for the friends of that time in social networks is this novel: The destruction. It's a brutal, real narrative. Even truthful. That Wayfarer generation (Ray Ban) gave shape shortly after to Generation X.