Eve Babitz Book Collection - Eve Babitz
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Mia Barron
Tags: General Fiction, Classic, Contemporary, Adults
Eves Hollywood, Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: By the time shed hit 30, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. She was immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruschas Five 1965 Girlfriends, and Babitzs first book showed her to be a razor-sharp writer with tales of her own., Eves Hollywood is an album of vivid snapshots of Southern Californias haute bohemians, of outrageously beautiful high school ingenues and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of rock stars sleeping it off at the Chateau Marmont. And though Babitzs prose might appear careening, shes 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
