{"product_id":"9781805463993-didion-and-babitz","title":"Didion \u0026 Babitz","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Belletrist Book Club pick\u003cbr\u003eAn outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the complicated relationship between Joan Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA TOP 12 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e AND\u003ci\u003e SUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This book is magic. It's all I ever needed' LENA DUNHAM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEve 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7406 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 \u003ci\u003etrue\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitz's brilliance of observation, Babitz's incisive intelligence and, most of all, Babitz's diary-like letters - letters found in those sealed boxes, letters so intimate you don't read them so much as breathe them - as the key to unlocking Didion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54846147494262,"sku":"9781805463993","price":14.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33975132.jpg?v=1753427974","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781805463993-didion-and-babitz","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}