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Sex and Rage: A Novel
De Eve Babitz
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>TV/film rights to Eve’s canon of work were recently sold to Tristar (Sony) TV, on behalf of Elizabeth Cantilon and Amy Pascal, for a planned TV series
> The Eve Babitz resurgence remains in high gear with tons of media coverage for the reissue of her classic Eve’s Hollywood and Slow Days, Fast Company
> With the recent reissue of Eve Babitz’s via the New York Review of Books, there has been an immense amount of coverage on the author from publications such as New York Magazine’s The Cut, Vanity Fair, The Paris Review, and more
> The Eve Babitz resurgence remains in high gear with tons of media coverage for the reissue of her classic Eve’s Hollywood and Slow Days, Fast Company
> With the recent reissue of Eve Babitz’s via the New York Review of Books, there has been an immense amount of coverage on the author from publications such as New York Magazine’s The Cut, Vanity Fair, The Paris Review, and more
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Comece a lerDados do livro
Sex and Rage: A Novel
De Eve Babitz
Descrição
>TV/film rights to Eve’s canon of work were recently sold to Tristar (Sony) TV, on behalf of Elizabeth Cantilon and Amy Pascal, for a planned TV series
> The Eve Babitz resurgence remains in high gear with tons of media coverage for the reissue of her classic Eve’s Hollywood and Slow Days, Fast Company
> With the recent reissue of Eve Babitz’s via the New York Review of Books, there has been an immense amount of coverage on the author from publications such as New York Magazine’s The Cut, Vanity Fair, The Paris Review, and more
> The Eve Babitz resurgence remains in high gear with tons of media coverage for the reissue of her classic Eve’s Hollywood and Slow Days, Fast Company
> With the recent reissue of Eve Babitz’s via the New York Review of Books, there has been an immense amount of coverage on the author from publications such as New York Magazine’s The Cut, Vanity Fair, The Paris Review, and more
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I was introduced to Babitz recently via a recent article about her in Vanity Fair. The idea of an intellectual good-time girl intrigued me as it should, and I was dismayed to find that her work is not only largely unknown but also out of print. I was able to get a first edition copy o fSex and Rage via interlibrary loan to read and boy, am I ever glad I did. Babitz is glorious as a writer, the work hums with the fastness of the era, of the good time unapologetic choices that Jacaranda makes, doing so with such easy going nature you are desperate for the drugs she’s on.
The book has several main characters, two of them cities (LA and NYC), who are plumped up in their finery to show you what they are really like. Make no mistake, this is very much a roman à cléf of Babitz’s life and I don’t think this book would have been successful any other way. The only way to capture the essence of the era and the city would have been to live it as wildly and as fully as Babitz.
The book has several main characters, two of them cities (LA and NYC), who are plumped up in their finery to show you what they are really like. Make no mistake, this is very much a roman à cléf of Babitz’s life and I don’t think this book would have been successful any other way. The only way to capture the essence of the era and the city would have been to live it as wildly and as fully as Babitz.
Surprising! I was put off for chapters waiting for any of it to speak to me at all, I’m so sick of stories of rich white girls burning their bras in the 60s and 70s while black girls were getting lynched and beaten to death and raped. But it didn’t matter in the end because our narrator is a failure and remains one, and it isn’t so joyous when you’re a drunk and the d.t.s are so bad you cant focus on the meeting at the publisher that is supposed to change your life. The author posed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp when she was a teen. Becoming a pretty, stupid drunk isn’t the worst that could have happened.
This was a very interesting book. Eve Babitz seems to perfectly capture the culture of late 60s southern California/L.A./Hollywood/surfer life in a way that makes me glad I never lived there myself (that's a compliment, trust me). Jacaranda Leven is a born and bred California surfer girl who gets caught up in the late-night, drinking and drugs with beautiful people culture that young ladies seem to be so susceptible to (the subtitle for this book - "ADVICE to YOUNG LADIES EAGER for a GOOD TIME - is peak Babitz toungue-in-cheek irony). But Jacaranda is more than a doomed plaything for the rich and famous; she actually has potential as a writer, which is reason enough for those who claim to love her to abandon her to her high and mighty ways. The tragedy here is that Jacaranda was caught up in the scene for so long that she believes she is less than, only good for a laugh when she's 14 cocktails in. It takes a literary agent and trip to New York for Jacaranda to begin to put the pieces of her life back together. Eve Babitz is a fantastic writer. Her sentences jump around like thoughts in a self-conscious alcoholic's head, poetic ruminations on the sights and sounds of the L.A. scene. It is a tale told by a woman, full of sex & rage, signifying everything.
I was introduced to Babitz recently via a recent article about her in Vanity Fair. The idea of an intellectual good-time girl intrigued me as it should, and I was dismayed to find that her work is not only largely unknown but also out of print. I was able to get a first edition copy o fSex and Rage via interlibrary loan to read and boy, am I ever glad I did. Babitz is glorious as a writer, the work hums with the fastness of the era, of the good time unapologetic choices that Jacaranda makes, doing so with such easy going nature you are desperate for the drugs she’s on.
The book has several main characters, two of them cities (LA and NYC), who are plumped up in their finery to show you what they are really like. Make no mistake, this is very much a roman à cléf of Babitz’s life and I don’t think this book would have been successful any other way. The only way to capture the essence of the era and the city would have been to live it as wildly and as fully as Babitz.
The book has several main characters, two of them cities (LA and NYC), who are plumped up in their finery to show you what they are really like. Make no mistake, this is very much a roman à cléf of Babitz’s life and I don’t think this book would have been successful any other way. The only way to capture the essence of the era and the city would have been to live it as wildly and as fully as Babitz.