Didion & Babitz [electronic resource] : A Belletrist Book Club pick
Lili Anolik2024
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A TOP 12 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES THE BELLETRIST BOOK
CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2024 'This book is magic. It's all I ever needed' LENA
DUNHAM Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in the wrack, ruin and filth
of her apartment, a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. The
boxes were pristine, the seals of duct tape unbroken. Inside, a lost world,
centred on a two-story rental in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood in the
sixties and seventies. 7406 Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American
writer: Joan Didion, a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool expression, an
enigma inside her storied marriage to John Gregory Dunne. Franklin Avenue was
also the breaking and then the remaking - and thus the true making - of another
great American writer: Eve Babitz, goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky, nude of
Marcel Duchamp, consort of Jim Morrison (among many, many others), a woman who
burned so hot she finally almost burned herself a...
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Author:
Lili Anolik, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Atlantic Books, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (352 pages, 4405194.0 Bytes,)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781805463931
Language:
English
BRN:
522078
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |