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Eve Babitz is the author of five critically acclaimed books She is a frequent contributor to magazines and weeklies, including Vogue, Elle, and L.A. Weekly. As a lifelong resident of Los Angeles and a graduate of Hollywood High, Babitz has spent her life capturing the elusive spirit of this mostra'n més enigmatic city. mostra'n menys

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Data de naixement
1943-05-13
Data de defunció
2021-12-17
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Los Angeles, California, USA
Lloc de defunció
Los Angeles, California, USA
Causa de la mort
Huntington's disease (complications)
Llocs de residència
Los Angeles, California, USA
Educació
Hollywood High School
Professions
author
artist
Agent
Erica Spellman Silverman

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I thought I wouldn’t enjoy this book because of the reviews, but I liked Jacaranda a lot, and I was rooting for her at the end.

Here are some quotes from the book that stood out to me while reading.

“The more someone liked her writing, the fewer clothes she felt she had on”

“Sometimes when you have had a little too much to drink, people who don’t know how wonderful you are might get the wrong impression” — “You’re fun when you’re drunk. The life of the party”

“Jacaranda’s face mirrored, over and over in the shop windows, how vulnerable and foreign she was.”

“Those skies had been done as well as they ever could be. All the art she’d ever done was but a thimbleful of color compared to one inch of this Matisse…Picasso had been through the sky, come out the other end, dug to China with a child’s shovel, and sen opposite skies…while Matisse just sat at home. And somehow his skies were bluer.”
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ogre_apple | Hi ha 10 ressenyes més | Dec 22, 2023 |
A mixed bag. The last quarter of this collection is so much stronger than the rest that I wish it was it's own separate publication.

Standouts: Rosewood Casket, Sins of the Green Death, The Girl Who Went to Japan, The Rendezvous.
 
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cbwalsh | Hi ha 8 ressenyes més | Sep 13, 2023 |
The author likes to name drop, but all the people she mentions stopped being famous 50 years ago so it's worthless. I mean, who the fuck is Stravinsky?

The author also says many times throughout the book that she looks like Brigitte Bardot, but I looked up pictures of her from her prime years and she looks as much like Bardot as I do. Perhaps she is not referencing beauty but big tits, which she does indeed have, but big tits does not a Brigitte Bardot-look-alike make, darling!

4 stars for the chapters about being a teenager, Le Conte and Hollywood High, bunny shoes and stacked hair and dancing the Choke.

1 star for everything else, it was super boring. I'll be very kind and round up to 3 stars but maybe I'll change it later.
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blueskygreentrees | Hi ha 8 ressenyes més | Jul 30, 2023 |
Babitz at her best is a great writer, and there are a number of essays in here that are compelling and pack a serious punch. They look at the world, dissect it, and look some more. Unrelenting, but not cruel, curious, not vicious. Read it.
 
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TomMcGreevy | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Jun 7, 2023 |

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Obres
13
També de
2
Membres
1,284
Popularitat
#19,974
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
34
ISBN
57
Llengües
5
Preferit
5

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