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Lädt ... Eve's Hollywood (New York Review Books Classics) (Original 1972; 2015. Auflage)von Eve Babitz (Autor)
Werk-InformationenEve's Hollywood von Eve Babitz (1972)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. i love eve!!!! i would read her shopping list!!!!!!!!! nobody has ever been wittier or more interesting. i have nothing intelligent to say except that she inspires me. ( ) It's important to recognize the tone here. She's typically being hyperbolic and obtuse for humorous effect. She compares her looks to Brigitte Bardot; she also compares taquitos to heroin. I don't think the literal truth of the statement is the point, the purpose is that she is the kind of character who would make both claims with equal seriousness. Probably mock seriousness. I found the book lively. Especially the author's prose voice, which seemed to grow in skill as the book went on. It's a vivid postcard from another time and place I'll never visit, and from a perspective I'll never inhabit. But, for me, the essays were all too similar, and suggestive of more depth than I personally was able to glean from them. The author likes to name drop, but all the people she mentions stopped being famous 50 years ago so it's worthless. I mean, who the fuck is Stravinsky? The author also says many times throughout the book that she looks like Brigitte Bardot, but I looked up pictures of her from her prime years and she looks as much like Bardot as I do. Perhaps she is not referencing beauty but big tits, which she does indeed have, but big tits does not a Brigitte Bardot-look-alike make, darling! 4 stars for the chapters about being a teenager, Le Conte and Hollywood High, bunny shoes and stacked hair and dancing the Choke. 1 star for everything else, it was super boring. I'll be very kind and round up to 3 stars but maybe I'll change it later. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been all of these things. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing Duchamp over a chessboard and as one of Ed Ruscha's Five 1965 Girlfriends, it turns out that Babitz was a writer with stories of her own. In Eve's Hollywood she gives us indelible snapshots of southern California's haute bohemians, of surpassingly lovely high school ingenues ("people with brains went to New York and people with faces came West") and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of burnt-out rock stars in the Chateau Marmont. In her deceptively conversational prose, we are brought along on a ride through an LA of perpetual delight: to a joint serving the perfect taquito, to the corner of La Brea and Sunset where we make eye contact with a rollerskating hooker, through the Watts Towers, and shopping at Central Market. This "daughter of the wasteland" is here to show us that her city is no wasteland at all, but a glowing landscape, swaying with fruit trees and bougainvillea, buffeted by earthquakes and Santa Ana winds. By the end, there is little doubt that Babitz herself is proof there's more to Hollywood than meets the eye"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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