Less than Zero Chapter Summary & Analysis | Part 11

Part 11 Summary

Clay remembers a party that was held at the home of a friend of one of his cousins. Somehow the party got out of hand and a young girl was brutally tortured, raped, and murdered. The girl's body was found at a drive-in theater hanging from a swing set in a parking lot. The cousin's friend disappeared and there was suspicion that he escaped to Canada or Mexico.

As Clay heads home tonight, he drives on the road where that house is located and thinks about today's events. Much has happened today starting with the episode with Julian and the Indiana man at the Saint Marquis. Clay continues driving further out into the desert and thinks about the nights when he would borrow his father's convertible and drive through the hot desert to feel the wind in his hair.

A few days before Clay has to leave to return to...
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