- Single women, Fiction, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, women
"Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been all of these things. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing Duchamp over a chessboard and as one of Ed Ruscha's Five 1965 Girlfriends, it turns out that Babitz was a writer with stories of her own.
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Warm, character-led, nostalgic and cool.
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Eve Babitz
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 1
- Publisher
- New York Review Books, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781590178911
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