Eve's Hollywood

by Eve Babitz

Book Overview

A legendary love letter to Los Angeles by the city's most charming daughter, complete with portraits of rock stars at Chateau Marmont, surfers in Santa Monica, prostitutes on sunset, and Eve's own beloved cat, Rosie. Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruscha's Five 1965 Girlfriends , Babitz's first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590178904
• ISBN13: 9781590178904
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Hot Damn!

Stumbled across this book by accident in a southern California library and opened it only reluctantly. But from page one, I was hooked, hooked, hooked. This gal can write books like tornadoes can tear up neighborhoods. Reading her (slightly fictionalized account) of growing up in LA was so thoroughly engrossing, I've tracked down and bought a (used) copy so I can re-read it from time to time - just to enjoy the verbal riffs she pulls off so (seemingly) effortlessly. If you liked Mary Karr's The Liar's Club, you'll LOVE this one. Reading it a second and third time is like returning to your favorite restaurant and being served the best meal in the world - over and over again. Deeply, richly, and very, very satisfying.Check it out. It's truly timeless. Truly.