Sex & Rage
Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time
By Eve Babitz
Harry Hartog's review
My first ever Eve Babitz, and it did not disappoint. Fast paced and witty, Babitz takes the reader through the last golden days of LA with Jacaranda as their extremely unreliable, messy & hilarious narrator. Babitz was an inspiration for a generation of writers, so much so it reads eerily like Brett Easton Ellis novel and I kept expecting someone to be a psychopath and murder everyone. Regardless, it’s a brilliant book & fantastic example of contemporary West Coast literature. Perfect for fans of contemporary female fiction, Cookie Mueller, Joan Didion etc. - Lauren, Subscriptions
Description
It is the 1970s in LA, and Jacaranda Leven - child of sun and surf - is swept into the dazzling cultural milieu of the beautiful people. Floating on a cloud of drink, drugs and men, she finds herself adrift, before her talent for writing, and a determined literary agent, set her on a course for New York and a new life.
Sex & Rage is a recently rediscovered classic from author Eve Babitz, herself a muse to many an artist, writer and musician in the 1970s. A semi-autobiographical novel, it charts the highs and lows of a life lived at the limits, and transports the reader to a sunnier, dreamier, more reckless time and place.
- ISBN:
- 9781786892744
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 256
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Canongate Books
- Imprint:
- Canongate Canons
- Weight:
- 191 g