Eve's Hollywood
Author: Babitz, Eve
ISBN: 9781590178904
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Oct 2015
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
An autobiographical novel by Eve Babitz, iconic L.A. Pquot;It GirlPquot; of the 60s and 70s, muse and lover of artists and rock-and-roll stars and, above all else, an unsparing and exuberant observer of an alluring cultural moment in The City of Angels. This confessional L.A. novel is a must-read for anyone who wants to know about 1960s counter culture in Southern California.
Plt;pPgt;Plt;bPgt;A legendary love letter to Los Angeles by the cityP#39;s most charming daughter, complete with portraits of rock stars at Chateau Marmont, surfers in Santa Monica, prostitutes on sunset, and EveP#39;s own beloved cat, Rosie.P#160;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time sheP#8217;d hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed RuschaP#8217;s Plt;iPgt;Five 1965 GirlfriendsPlt;/iPgt;, BabitzP#8217;s first book showed her to beP#160;a razor-sharp writer with tales of her own. Plt;iPgt;EveP#8217;s HollywoodPlt;/iPgt; is an album ofP#160; vivid snapshots of Southern CaliforniaP#8217;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 BabitzP#8217;s prose might appear careening, sheP#8217;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 P#8220;daughter of the wastelandP#8221; 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 windsP#8212;and every bit as seductive as she is.P#160;Plt;/pPgt;
ISBN: 9781590178904
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Oct 2015
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
An autobiographical novel by Eve Babitz, iconic L.A. Pquot;It GirlPquot; of the 60s and 70s, muse and lover of artists and rock-and-roll stars and, above all else, an unsparing and exuberant observer of an alluring cultural moment in The City of Angels. This confessional L.A. novel is a must-read for anyone who wants to know about 1960s counter culture in Southern California.
Plt;pPgt;Plt;bPgt;A legendary love letter to Los Angeles by the cityP#39;s most charming daughter, complete with portraits of rock stars at Chateau Marmont, surfers in Santa Monica, prostitutes on sunset, and EveP#39;s own beloved cat, Rosie.P#160;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time sheP#8217;d hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed RuschaP#8217;s Plt;iPgt;Five 1965 GirlfriendsPlt;/iPgt;, BabitzP#8217;s first book showed her to beP#160;a razor-sharp writer with tales of her own. Plt;iPgt;EveP#8217;s HollywoodPlt;/iPgt; is an album ofP#160; vivid snapshots of Southern CaliforniaP#8217;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 BabitzP#8217;s prose might appear careening, sheP#8217;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 P#8220;daughter of the wastelandP#8221; 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 windsP#8212;and every bit as seductive as she is.P#160;Plt;/pPgt;
