Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time - Eve Babitz
BABITZ, Eve. Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time. New York: Knopf, 1979.
First edition, first printing. Eve Babitz (1943-2021) was a native Angelino and LA’s ‘IT’ girl of her era. She became an icon of art and sex when in 1963 she posed in the nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp.
This book is an autobiographical novel set in the glamorous cultural milieu of the1970s Los Angeles, a vibrant scene that included leading figures in art, music, film, and literature, entertainment tycoons, as well as an assortment of bohemians, junkies, surfers, and party people. Author’s third book, following Eve’s Hollywood (1974), and Slow Days Fast Company (1977). Eve Babitz is the essential LA writer, her prose style is seductive, sensual and intimate, literary, and evocative.
227 pp. 8vo. Fine in dust-jacket. Two ownership blind stamps to front endpaper. Dust jacket by Fred Marcellino.