Bøger af Eve Babitz

Eve Babitz kan med rette beskrives som festudgaven af Joan Didion, af hvem hun altid har stået i skyggen. Fra Los Angeles med Stravinsky som gudfar og som 20-årig berømt foreviget, da hun nøgen spillede skak med Marcel Duchamp. Babitz festede igennem sin ungdom, men stoppede i tide og undgik den skæbne som rigdom, berømmelse og uanede muligheder ofte fører med sig. Temaer, som Babitz efterfølgende har bygget et forfatterskab op omkring.Eve Babitz vækker et sted, en tid og en stemning til live, som få andre. Los Angeles og Sunset Boulevard i begyndelsen af 1970'erne. Babitz svømmede i berømmelse, berømtheder og toppen af populærkulturen i samme periode. Romanen er et yderst velskrevet vidnesbyrd med en nerve og drive, som gør det bemærkelsesværdigt, at den ikke tidligere er udkommet på dansk. Cool ... charmerende ... en vidunderlig, flagrende og skarp bog★★★★★★ BerlingskeBabitz’ underholdende værk ... er både tidstypisk og tidløst menneskeklogtWeekendavisenSiderne nærmest vender sig selvLitteratursiden.dkMorsom og observantBogblogger.dk

No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and ’70s. One man proved elusive, however, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book. Slow Days, Fast Company is a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California that far exceeds its mash-note premise. In ten sun-baked, Santa Ana wind–swept sketches, Babitz re-creates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their success, socialites on three-day drug binges holed up in the Chateau Marmont, soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow’s script will kill them off, Italian femmes fatales even more fatal than Babitz. And she even leaves LA now and then, spending an afternoon at the house of flawless Orange County suburbanites, a day among the grape pickers of the Central Valley, a weekend in Palm Springs where her dreams of romance fizzle and her only solace is Virginia Woolf. In the end it doesn’t matter if Babitz ever gets the guy—she seduces us.

A glittering coming-of-age tale set in '70s Los Angeles

A novel about a dreamy young girl moving between the planets of Los Angeles and New York City. We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles, a beach bum, part-time painter of surfboards, sun-kissed and beautiful, semi-involved with a married man, glittering among the pretty creatures, blithely drinking Pink Ladies with any number of tycoons, unattached and unworried in the pleasurable mania of California. We follow her as 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.

"[T]he 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. Sophie and Lola, like the many other women who move in and out of this electric saga, know that while L.A. is constantly changing it is essentially eternal; through their eyes we see the mixture of high culture and low, the promises of youth and the fulfillment of nostalgia, the pink sunsets and the palm trees that are L.A. And through this fantastic tale, Babitz shares what it is to be a woman in what she convinces us is the capital of civilization"--Back cover.

Eve Babitz vækker et sted, en tid og en stemning til live, som få andre. Og ingen skriver bedre om high school-tiden og den dunkle overgang fra uskyld til voksenliv end Babitz. Samvittighedsfuldt og usentimentalt, men forstående over for sit tidligere jeg fortæller hun om det korte tidsrum på nogle få år, hvor flyvefærdige sjæle forsøger at finde en mening med autoriteterne, hierarkierne, uretfærdighederne og med sex. På baggrund af Babitz’ eget bedsteborgerlige, klaustrofobiske miljø er det forbrydertyperne (James Dean er prototypen og hendes helt), som nyder hendes fascination og respekt. ”I enhver ung mands liv er der en Eve Babitz. Det er som oftest Eve Babitz.” Earl McGrath, Rolling Stone Records

Previously uncollected nonfiction pieces by Hollywood's ultimate It Girl about everything from fashion to tango to Jim Morrison and Nicholas Cage. With Eve's Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books that followed, among them Slow Days, Fast Company and Sex and Rage, have seduced generations of readers with their unfailing wit and impossible glamour. What is less well known is that Babitz was a working journalist for the better part of three decades, writing for the likes of Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Esquire, as well as for off-the-beaten-path periodicals like Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Francis Ford Coppola's short-lived City. Whether profiling Hollywood darlings, getting to the bottom of health crazes like yoga and acupuncture, remembering friends and lovers from her days hobnobbing with rock stars at the Troubadour and art stars at the Ferus Gallery, or writing about her beloved, misunderstood hometown, Los Angeles, Babitz approaches every assignment with an energy and verve that is all her own. I Used to Be Charming gathers nearly fifty pieces written between 1975 and 1997, including the full text of Babitz's wry book-length investigation into the pioneering lifestyle brand Fiorucci. The title essay, published here for the first time, recounts the accident that came close to killing her in 1996; it reveals an uncharacteristically vulnerable yet never less than utterly charming Babitz.