Lili Anolik
Didion & Babitz


BoklivArtikelnr: 9781805463948

Pocketbok från Atlantic Books om 352 sidor. Utforskar relationen mellan två framstående amerikanska författare och deras liv i Hollywood.

  • Analys av vänskapen mellan Joan Didion och Eve Babitz.

  • Inkluderar intima brev som ger djupare insikt.

  • Utgiven som pocket med 352 sidor.

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Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Atlantic Books
Omfång: 352 s. | Språk: Engelska

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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 alive. Didion and Babitz formed a complicated alliance, a friendship that went bad, amity turning to enmity.

With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitz's brilliance of observation, Babitz's incisive intelligence and, most of all, Babitz's diary-like letters - letters found in those sealed boxes, letters so intimate you don't read them so much as breathe them - as the key to unlocking Didion.

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