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Eve Babitz: Sex and Rage Eve Babitz: Sex and Rage

The ​popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, originally published in 1979, about a dreamy young girl moving between the planets of Los Angeles and New York City.

We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles, a beach bum, part-time painter of surfboards, sun-kissed and beautiful, semi-involved with a married man, glittering among the pretty creatures, blithely drinking Pink Ladies with any number of tycoons, unattached and unworried in the pleasurable mania of California. We follow her as she rises from the mists to the discovery that she’s twenty-eight, jobless, with no sense of purpose; that her wild friendships with Gilbert and Max and Etienne might not be as real as they seem. So she pries herself away from this immensely seductive place and moves to New York, to seriousness and work, to meet the agents of her new world.

Sex and Rage delights in its starry, sensuous, dreamlike narrative and its spontaneous… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1979

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Canongate, Edinburgh, 2018
256 oldal · ASIN: B0792JBLC9
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Counterpoint, Berkeley, 2017
256 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9781619029354

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