Ebook: Eve's Hollywood
Author: Babitz Eve
- Tags: Single women -- Fiction., Hollywood (Los Angeles Calif.) -- Fiction., FICTION / Biographical., FICTION / Contemporary Women., FICTION / Humorous., Single women., California -- Los Angeles -- Hollywood.
- Series: New York Review Books classics
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: NYRB Classics
- City: California--Los Angeles--Hollywood., Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Language: English
- epub
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 be�a 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.
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