Sex and Rage Paperback - 2017

Name: Sex and Rage
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Author: Babitz, Eve,
ISBN: 9781619029354

by Eve Babitz

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From the publisher

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"This novel is studded with sharp observations . . . Babitz's talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures." --The New York Times Book Review

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 White Ladies with any number of tycoons, unattached and unworried in the pleasurable mania of California. Yet she lacks a purpose--so at twenty-eight, jobless, she moves to New York to start a new life and career, eager to make it big in the world of New York City.

Sex and Rage delights in its sensuous, dreamlike narrative and its spontaneous embrace of fate, and 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.

Details

Title Sex and Rage
Author Eve Babitz
Binding Paperback
Pages 256
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Counterpoint LLC
Publication date 2017-07-11
ISBN 9781619029354 / 1619029359
Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
Dimensions 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.7 in (20.57 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm)
Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
Category Fiction - General
Library of Congress subjects Interpersonal relations, United States - Social life and customs -
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2017005020
Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

About the author

EVE BABITZ is the author of several books of fiction, including Sex and Rage, Eve's Hollywood, and Slow Days, Fast Company. Her nonfiction works include Fiorucci: The Book and Two by Two. She has written for publications including Ms. and Esquire, and in the late 1960s, she designed album covers for the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and Linda Ronstadt.