Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait
of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a
world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money a place devoid of feeling or
hope. Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of
limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago,
and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his
best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday
turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy
mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.

深红是血液的颜色，粉红是皮肤的颜色。
六个性格鲜明的女孩，她们像开在同一根树枝上的桃花，彼此爱慕又彼此嫉妒，酷烈纠缠的诸多情感，她们携着美丽的身体怀着对人生对爱情的美丽向往挣扎在生活中，终究是，理想一个一个的破灭，妥协到无法妥协。
繁花落尽，阿燃收拾行装走在路上，输得起的输不起的全都输掉了，当最后的那一刻痛到最痛而一无所求时，她的心长成一棵树，开始思想生活的根源。