BABITZ, Eve.
Eve's Hollywood.
New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence , 1974.
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"L.A. HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HUMID JUNGLE ALIVE WITH SEETHING L.A. PROJECTS THAT I GUESS PEOPLE FROM OTHER PLACES JUST CAN'T SEE": FIRST EDITION OF EVE BABITZ'S EVE'S HOLLYWOOD
First edition of this confessional novel about Los Angeles in the 1970s. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 23 pages of photographic illustrations. Frontispiece and concluding photographs of the author by Annie Liebovitz. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
"Sharp and funny throughout, Babitz offers an almost cinematic portrait of Los Angeles: gritty, glamorous, toxic and intoxicatin" (New York Times). "Babitz's style is cool, conversational, loose, yet weighted with a seemingly effortless poetry. Unlike her contemporary, Joan Didion, Babitz isn't staring into the abyss and reporting back; but she does want to tell you how good the light is out by the abyss" (Guardian). "Eve Babitz is a little like Madame de Sévigné, that inveterate letter-writer of Louis XIV's time, transposed to the Chateau Marmont in the late 20th-Century—lunching, chatting, dressing, loving and crying in Hollywood, that latter-day Versailles" (Los Angeles Times).
Eve's Hollywood.
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