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5029845Didion & Babitzhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/didion---babitz-9781805463931/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4576093/image.jpg?v=638857772470300000143159MXNAtlantic BooksInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>A TOP 12 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN <em>THE TIMES</em> AND <em>SUNDAY TIMES</em></strong><br /><strong>THE BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2024</strong><br /><strong>This book is magic. Its all I ever needed LENA DUNHAM</strong></p><p>Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in the wrack, ruin and filth of her apartment, a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. The boxes were pristine, the seals of duct tape unbroken. Inside, a lost world, centred on a two-story rental in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood in the sixties and seventies.</p><p>7406 Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American writer: Joan Didion, a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool expression, an enigma inside her storied marriage to John Gregory Dunne. Franklin Avenue was also the breaking and then the remaking - and thus the <em>true</em> making - of another great American writer: Eve Babitz, goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky, nude of Marcel Duchamp, consort of Jim Morrison (among many, many others), a woman who burned so hot she finally almost burned herself alive. Didion and Babitz formed a complicated alliance, a friendship that went bad, amity turning to enmity.</p><p>With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitzs brilliance of observation, Babitzs incisive intelligence and, most of all, Babitzs diary-like letters - letters found in those sealed boxes, letters so intimate you dont read them so much as breathe them - as the key to unlocking Didion.</p>...4761341Didion & Babitz143159https://www.gandhi.com.mx/didion---babitz-9781805463931/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4576093/image.jpg?v=638857772470300000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781805463931_W3siaWQiOiI2YTI0YWU0MS1iNmI2LTQ5ZDktYTA2ZC0xOTA4NDY2MDBjOTMiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjE1OSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjE2LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE0MywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDYtMTdUMTU6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781805463931_<p>Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in the wrack, ruin and filth of her apartment, a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. Inside, a lost world, centred on a two-story rental in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood in the sixties and seventies. 7406 Franklin Avenue, where writers and artists mixed with movie stars, rock n rollers and drugs.<br />Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American writer: Joan Didion, a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool expression, her marriage to John Gregory Dunne as tortured as it was enduring. It was also the breaking and then the remaking - and thus the <em>true</em> making - of another great American writer: Eve Babitz, goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky, nude of Marcel Duchamp, consort of Jim Morrison (and many, many others), a woman who burned so hot she finally almost burned herself alive. Didion and Babitz formed a complicated alliance, a friendship that went bad, amity turning to enmity.<br />With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitzs brilliance of observation, Babitzs incisive intelligence and, most of all, Babitzs diary-like letters - letters found in those sealed boxes, letters so intimate you dont read them so much as breathe them - as the key to unlocking Didion.</p>...(*_*)9781805463931_<p><strong>A TOP 12 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN <em>THE TIMES</em> AND <em>SUNDAY TIMES</em></strong><br /><strong>THE BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2024</strong><br /><strong>This book is magic. Its all I ever needed LENA DUNHAM</strong></p><p>Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in the wrack, ruin and filth of her apartment, a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. The boxes were pristine, the seals of duct tape unbroken. Inside, a lost world, centred on a two-story rental in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood in the sixties and seventies.</p><p>7406 Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American writer: Joan Didion, a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool expression, an enigma inside her storied marriage to John Gregory Dunne. Franklin Avenue was also the breaking and then the remaking - and thus the <em>true</em> making - of another great American writer: Eve Babitz, goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky, nude of Marcel Duchamp, consort of Jim Morrison (among many, many others), a woman who burned so hot she finally almost burned herself alive. Didion and Babitz formed a complicated alliance, a friendship that went bad, amity turning to enmity.</p><p>With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitzs brilliance of observation, Babitzs incisive intelligence and, most of all, Babitzs diary-like letters - letters found in those sealed boxes, letters so intimate you dont read them so much as breathe them - as the key to unlocking Didion.</p>...9781805463931_Atlantic Bookslibro_electonico_9781805463931_9781805463931Lili AnolikInglésMéxico2024-11-14T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/faberfactory-epub-6d7cecc7-d3c2-4ae2-8d4b-d1172487a9b8.epub2024-11-14T00:00:00+00:00Atlantic Books