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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. 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. And through this fantastic tale, Babitz shares what it is to be a woman in what she convinces us is the capital of civilization.
Ebook LAWOMAN Eve Babitz 9781501132728 Books
"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 boring. Sorry, Eve."
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LAWOMAN Eve Babitz 9781501132728 Books Reviews
- I am not someone who stops reading books, but I COULD NOT get through this. There's absolutely no plot, just random stories thrown around that have little relevance to each other, and I was left wondering countless times what the point of this book was. There's so many random names brought up in one story that you never hear of again, making the whole thing confusing and unclear... and just without a point. I thought if I read far enough the plot would surface but it never did; this book is a never ending mashup of random little tales that I found truly boring, uncorrelated, and just unpleasant. They can range from some ridiculous and absurd glamorized tale of public masturbation to a trivial and lengthy quarrel over pastel paint to a materialistic ode to elaborate dinner parties, all that I can assure you have little to do with each other. The only reason I'm not giving it one star is because living in LA, I mildly enjoyed the accurate references of streets and places here. But save yourself the trouble, don't read it.
- 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 reader, I doubt I will read more in regular book form. But I would like to. Great stories of LA in a fascinating time when it was the place to be in the world. - Eve Babitz is a wonderfully fresh writer who can only be compared to Charles Bukowski Both of them describe Los Angeles, and particularly
Hollywood (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 Hollywood
is the rear view mirror of your car, as I discovered escaping to San Francisco. But no one, including me, has written such good descriptions
of my home town as Babitz and Bukowski.
Lee Hopkins - I enjoy Eve Babitz musings on L.A and girlhood/womanhood but this "novel" read a tad disjointed, which I still enjoyed but if it were any longer I may have become frustrated. Seems more autobiographical, which after reading Eve's Hollywood, I see that it is so. I'll stick to her non-fiction. Still love all her works in helping to better understand her as a writer, woman, muse and artist.
- This isn't my favorite of Eve's work, but I really enjoyed her stylings too much to notice that many of the places, people, and set pieces of the novel are familiar from the rest of her work.
- 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 boring. Sorry, Eve. - Half - crazy look at LA in those days. Great view of young woman's(rich and well connected, brainy too) life at that time. You can see the city changing ang growing before your eyes.
- I will read all her books.
