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mcaitycook 's review for:
Sex and Rage
by Eve Babitz
My first Babitz, and I really deeply loved this. The prose is so descriptive and alive. Babitz’s portrait of Los Angeles in the 1970s here is glamorous and intoxicating, but she finds a way to show us its cracks, its sleazy slimy darkness, in the exact same breath. The two never feel contradictory. Jacaranda (an Eve Babitz stand in) dives into and then escapes a toxic social circle of powerful men and the women they surround themselves with, resulting in some genuinely interesting discussion of alcoholism and addiction. The scenes in New York in the second half of the novel are delightful fish out of water moments. I highlighted so many incredible sentences in this book while reading digitally, and feel like I will need to purchase a copy so that I can annotate again!