L.A.WOMAN
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.63 (572 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501132725 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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lee hopkins said EVE BABITZ AGAIN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS. Eve Babitz is a wonderfully fresh writer who can only be compared to Charles Bukowski Both of them describe Los Angeles, and particularlyHollywood (where she and I grew up blocks from each other though I never met her). As far as I am concerned, the best view of Hollywoodis the rear view mirror of your car, as I discovered escaping to San Francisco. But no one, including me, has written such good descriptionsof my home town as Babitz and Bukowski.Lee Hopkins. Not At All What I Had Expected I absolutely loved "Slow Days, Fast Company" and "Sex and Rage". Read them over and over again. I wanted to BE Eve Babitz. I treasured those books and unfortunately my ex-husband threw them in the trash when we were in the process of divorcing. When I saw how much they were worth now I was sick about it!I had never read "L.A. Woman". I guessed that it was going to be more of Eve's stories of her life and times in L.A. I'm sorry to say I couldn't even finish it. Just a long story about her Ancestry. I found it very bo. Rick Spell said Fiction that is True. An ultimate free spirited girl of the 60s growing up in LA. While her books are generally unknown now, I read the article about her in Vanity Fair and was quite fascinated. Her fiction is really stories of her life and her friends. This particular book has characters of her parents relatives and friends but also a character of her. While I have no idea who the earlier characters are like the famous female movie star, I'm sure those with more knowledge can easily identify this person.It's not earth shattering and as 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. 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. And through this fantastic tale, Babitz shares what it is to be a woman in what she convinces us is the capital of civilization.
Eve Babitz was born and grew up in Hollywood. Her books include Eve’s Hollywood, Slow Days, Fast Company, Two by Two, and Sex and Rage.. She began to write in 1972 after designing album covers for such artists as Linda Ronstadt, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds and Lord Buckley. Her articles and short stories have appeared in Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire and The New York Ti
"What truly sets Babitz apart from L.A. writers like Didion or Nathanael West is that no matter what cruel realities she might face, a part of her still buys the Hollywood fantasy, feels its magnetic pull as much as that Midwestern hopeful who heads to the coast in pursuit of 'movie dreams.'" (Los Angeles Review of Books)“Eve Babitz is to prose what Chet Baker, with his light, airy style, lyrical but also rhythmic, detached but also sensuous, is to jazz.” (Vanity Fair)"Perfect fin de siecle Southern California." (New York Times)