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Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, the author had been all of these things. She gives us indelible snapshots of southern California's haute bohemians, of surpassingly lovely high school ingenues and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of burnt-out rock stars in the Chateau Marmont.

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Offers a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California. In ten sun-baked, Santa Ana wind-swept sketches, the author recreates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their success, socialites on three-day drug binges, evading their East Coast banking husbands, and, Italian femme fatales even more fatal than she is.

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

(Paperback, Main - Canons)

A rediscovered classic: Eve Babitz's wry, tender coming-of-age tale of 1970s LA.

(Paperback, Main)

All previously uncollected, these nonfiction pieces range from sharp personal essays on body image and the male gaze to playful meditations on everything from ballroom dancing to kissing to perfume.