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L.A.WOMAN
L.A.WOMAN | Eve Babitz
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Eve Babitz is a writer like no other—she “is to prose what Chet Baker is to jazz” (Vanity Fair)—and she has influenced a generation of writers and readers with her sophisticated, witty, and delightful work. L.A. Woman is quintessential Babitz, the story of Sophie, a twenty-something blonde Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A. and Lola, a German immigrant who settles in Hollywood in the twenties to drive Pierce Arrows recklessly down Sunset Boulevard and who knows that Maybelline mascara cakes and Rudolph Valentino are the essence of life. Sophie and Lola, like the many other women who move in and out of this electric saga know that while L.A. is constantly changing it is essentially eternal; through their eyes we see the mixture of high culture and low, the promises of youth and the fulfillment of nostalgia, the pink sunsets and the palm trees that are L.A. And through this fantastic tale, Babitz shares what it is to be a woman in what she convinces us is the capital of civilization.
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Caterina
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"'How on earth can a grown woman spend the fall in a place like Berkeley?' Estelle demanded of me. 'School,' I said."

As a grown woman who spent the fall in Berkeley for school, ???

This book is charming and the perfect distraction right now, especially when I have a headache and can't sleep after a very long, stressful, productive day.

MayJasper Rest well 😊 5y
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This book felt like talking to an old friend after they traveled and had adventures and learned all the gossip. In short I loved it.

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Eve Babitz makes for *perfect* beach reading. Her books just drip with California sunshine and behind-the-scenes Hollywood glamor. I always wonder what is fact and what is fiction in her books, since she was quite an It Girl herself (her introduction casually name drops Jim Morrison, Steve Martin, Carl Reiner and more). I loved Sex and Rage more, but this was definitely a fun read about finding yourself as you go through your 20s. 4 🌟

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