Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

'Ham on Rye' follows the path of Bukowski's alter-ego Henry Chinaski through the high school years of acne and rejection and into the beginning of a long and successful career in alcoholism.

Clay comes home to L.A. for Christmas vacation and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and moral entropy, where everyone drives porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. 'Less Than Zero' is a shocking coming-of-age novel about the casual nihilism that comes with youth an...

Falling in love is never easy. Sadie Nelson ought to know - she's got two men to choose from and neither one is hassle-free. Gil McGann, a Hollywood producer has flown her from London to LA in order to win her heart. Then there's actor Tavis Jones, whose sense of fun makes Sadie feel immediately ...