Second, Trent, a friend, shows a snuff film at a party. Clay thinks she did it on purpose, just to get the attention. First an anorexic friend of Clay, called Muriel, takes heroin even though there are people watching and taking photos. He cannot believe he used to be like this. The following major events in the book all shock him dramatically. Clay does offer him the money, but Julian cannot accept it in the first place, but eventually does and disappears without giving Clay the money back. Julian asks Clay to borrow him so money to pay off his debts. Things aren’t going very well with Julian, he has become a prostitute and drug addict, while Clay was in college.

At the same time he attempts to rebuild his relationship with his best friend: Julian. During his decision-making he has one night stands with men and women, Blair doesn’t really approve that, obviously and the relationship goes downhill. But he doesn’t know if he really loves her, or likes her so he’s very much confused about that. Just before he left he had started a relationship with his best friend Blair, now he’s back and he must decide whether or not he wants to restart a relationship with Blair. He spends most of time going to exclusive parties and doing drugs with his friends.

He had been to college in New Hampshire and thought it would be nice to visit his friends and family in America. The novel follows his life, he is a rich and young college student who has returned to his hometown of Los Angeles in California for the winter break. The main character of the book is called Clay. It’s more something like a description of his life. The plot summary of the book is actually quite hard to tell, because the book doesn’t really have a story, a central happening or something like that.

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