L.A. Woman, Eve Babitz
L.A. Woman, Eve Babitz
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L.A. Woman

Author: Eve Babitz

Narrator: Mia Barron

Unabridged: 5 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/03/2016


Synopsis

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.

About Eve Babitz

Eve Babitz is the author of several books of fiction, including Eve's Hollywood and Slow Days, Fast Company, both published by NYRB Classics. Her other nonfiction works include Fiorucci, the Book and Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night. She has written for many publications, including Ms. And Esquire, and in the late 1960s designed album covers for the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and Linda Ronstadt.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on August 29, 2022

eve babitz you will always be funny!!! this was not quite as good as slow days, fast company, but what is. also it had some really good lines about how boring it must be to be married to a man and, as a hater who lives her life by the adage that women are more interesting than men...what a pleasure. t......more

Goodreads review by Kim on September 11, 2010

I give this book 5 stars not because it is the best book I have ever read, but because it satisfied the appetite I had for it---when I must read Eve, I MUST read Eve, and nothing can stop me, and I can do nothing until the book is done. I will say it again and again, Eve gets L.A. I read her to know......more

Goodreads review by Katie on August 13, 2017

Like a dirty Joan Didion.......more

Goodreads review by Alisha on June 15, 2021

this book called me poor and boring but i loved it......more

Goodreads review by nathan on August 06, 2024

"𝘈𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘳𝘰𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘧 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘬𝘦, 𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘴, 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘺𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘺𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯 𝘓.𝘈. 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯, 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘴𝘬 𝘮𝘦, 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘺𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵." Sadly not great, not great......more