Sex and Rage, Eve Babitz
Sex and Rage, Eve Babitz
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Sex and Rage

Author: Eve Babitz

Narrator: Mia Barron

Unabridged: 6 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/11/2017

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

"Her words are worth a thousand moving pictures!" --Joseph Heller The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, originally published in 1979, about a dreamy young girl moving between the planets of Los Angeles and New York City. We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles. She's a beach bum, a part-time painter of surfboards, sun-kissed and beautiful. Jacaranda has an on-again, off-again relationship with a married man and glitters among the city's pretty creatures, blithely drinking Pink Ladies with any number of tycoons, unattached and unworried in the pleasurable mania of California. She rises from the mists to the discovery that she's twenty-eight, jobless, with no sense of purpose; that her wild friendships with Gilbert and Max and Etienne might not be as real as they seem. So she pries herself away from this immensely seductive place and moves to New York, to seriousness and work, to meet the agents of her new world. Sex and Rage delights in its sensuous, dreamlike narrative and its spontaneous embrace of fate, work, and of certain meetings and chances. Jacaranda moves beyond the tango of sex and rage into the open challenge of a defined and more fulfilling expressive life. Sex and Rage further solidifies Eve Babitz's place as a singularly important voice in Los Angeles literature-haunting, alluring, and alive.

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 sawah on October 13, 2021

sex & rage r my two favourite emotions so u can imagine my rage when neither of them made an appearance......more

Goodreads review by Caitlin on April 26, 2021

not enough sex and not enough rage!!!!!!......more

Goodreads review by Shawn on August 28, 2023

Eve is just too good at what she does......more

Goodreads review by emma on November 29, 2022

this book rules because it's about this perfect girl who is extremely beautiful and interesting and smart and hot and universally adored and it's also autobiographical. goals, really. this is actually not eve's finest - normally she's funny enough that you can forgive her for knowing how charming and......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on December 27, 2016

I really, really wanted to like this book. It came so highly recommended. However, by modern standards it reads like some stream of consciousness fever dream, like it's poorly edited. She has a beautiful authorial voice, but my god is it tedious to read.......more