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Sex & Rage

By: Eve Babitz
Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
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About this listen

It is the 1970s in LA, and Jacaranda Leven - child of sun and surf - is swept into the dazzling cultural milieu of the beautiful people. Floating on a cloud of drink, drugs and men, she finds herself adrift before her talent for writing, and a determined literary agent, set her on a course for New York and a new life.

Sex & Rage is a recently rediscovered classic from author Eve Babitz, herself a muse to many an artist, writer and musician in the 1970s. A semiautobiographical novel, it charts the highs and lows of a life lived at the limits and transports the listener to a sunnier, dreamier, more reckless time and place. Coming to audio for the first time in the UK, narrated by Katherine Fenton.

©2018 Eve Babitz (P)2018 Canongate Books Ltd Biographical Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction Biography Rage

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Critic reviews

"Babitz writes like no one else, but if she sounds like anyone, it is Nora Ephron writing songs for Lana del Rey. Sex & Rage is seductive, funny and infuriating - it’s a slacker siren song, a novel about writers and writing and a heavenly holiday to '70s LA all at once." (Daisy Buchanan)
"As cool, sharp and delicious as a perfectly executed Mint Julep. Babitz writes with wit and clarity - and always, always with a whole lot of heart." (Elizabeth Day)
"Pure pleasure - a perpetual-motion machine of no-stakes elation and champagne fizz." (New Yorker)
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An unlikeable and entitled woman talks endlessly about how marvellous she thinks she is ad infinitum. Flimsy characters, boastful overtones and utterly devoid of humanity or plot. Dreadful

Boring and Indulgent

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probably one of my least favourite audibles, the character is difficult and their isn't really a plot

unfinishable

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Struggled badly. Gave up after 6 chapters. Well written but the story is incredibly dull and slow and nothing seems to happen.

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