Eve's Hollywood
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A legendary love letter to Los Angeles by the city's most charming daughter, complete with portraits of rock stars at Chateau Marmont, surfers in Santa Monica, prostitutes on sunset, and Eve's own beloved cat, Rosie. Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse- by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruscha's Five 1965 Girlfriends , Babitz's first book showed her to bea razor-sharp writer with tales of her own. Eve's Hollywood is an album of vivid snapshots of Southern California's haute bohemians, of outrageously beautiful high-school ingenues and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of rock stars sleeping it off at the Chateau Marmont. And though Babitz's prose might appear careening, she's in control as she takes us on a ride through an LA of perpetual delight, from a joint serving the perfect taquito, to the corner of La Brea and Sunset where we make eye contact with a roller-skating hooker, to the Watts Towers. This "daughter of the wasteland" is here to show us that her city is no wasteland at all but a glowing landscape of swaying fruit trees and blooming bougainvillea, buffeted by earthquakes and the Santa Ana winds-and every bit as seductive as she is.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1590178904
ISBN13:9781590178904
Release Date:October 2015
Publisher:New York Review of Books
Length:352 Pages
Weight:0.81 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Hot Damn!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Stumbled across this book by accident in a southern California library and opened it only reluctantly. But from page one, I was hooked, hooked, hooked. This gal can write books like tornadoes can tear up neighborhoods. Reading her (slightly fictionalized account) of growing up in LA was so thoroughly engrossing, I've tracked down and bought a (used) copy so I can re-read it from time to time - just to enjoy the verbal riffs she pulls off so (seemingly) effortlessly. If you liked Mary Karr's The Liar's Club, you'll LOVE this one. Reading it a second and third time is like returning to your favorite restaurant and being served the best meal in the world - over and over again. Deeply, richly, and very, very satisfying.Check it out. It's truly timeless. Truly.
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