NATIONAL BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of 2017 A Bellatrist Book Club Pick for July 2017 The Paris Review Staff Pick 1 of 12 Great New Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer ( The Huffington Post ) 1 of 9 Books to Read This Summer ( W and Elle ) 1 of 10 Titles to Pick Up Now ( O Magazine ) 1 of 6 Smarter--But Not Quite Guilt-Free--Beach Reads ( VICE ) This novel is studded with sharp observations .
Sex and Rage further solidifies Eve Babitz\'s place as a singularly important voice in Los Angeles literature--haunting, alluring, and alive..
Jacaranda moves beyond the tango of sex and Rage into the open challenge of a defined and more fulfilling expressive life.
Sex and Rage delights in its sensuous, dreamlike narrative and its spontaneous embrace of fate, and work, and of certain meetings and chances.
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.
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.
She\'s a beach bum, a part-time painter of surfboards, sun-kissed and beautiful.
We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles. -- 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.
Babitz\'s talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures. . .
NATIONAL BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of 2017 A Bellatrist Book Club Pick for July 2017 The Paris Review Staff Pick 1 of 12 Great New Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer ( The Huffington Post ) 1 of 9 Books to Read This Summer ( W and Elle ) 1 of 10 Titles to Pick Up Now ( O Magazine ) 1 of 6 Smarter--But Not Quite Guilt-Free--Beach Reads ( VICE ) This novel is studded with sharp observations
