Didion and BabitzLili Anolik

Description: Didion and BabitzLili Anolik ITEM DESCRIPTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, and more! Joan Didion is revealed at last in this “vivid, engrossing” (Vogue), and outrageously provocative dual biography “that reads like a propulsive novel” (Oprah Daily) revealing the mutual attractions—and antagonisms—of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz. Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan? —Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972 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. This world turned for a certain number of years in the late sixties and early seventies and centered on a two-story rental in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood. 7406 Franklin Avenue, a combination salon-hotbed-living end where writers and artists mixed with movie stars, rock ‘n’ rollers, and drug trash. 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, their union as tortured as it was enduring. 7406 Franklin Avenue was the breaking and then the remaking—and thus the true 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. Didion, in spite of her confessional style, is so little known or understood. She’s remained opaque, elusive. Until now. 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. And “what the book makes clear is that Didion and Babitz were more alike than either would have liked to admit” (Time). FEATURES SHIPPING We offer FREE shipping on all orders! We ship within Three business days of payment, usually sooner We use a selection of shipping services such as UPS, FedEx, USPS etc We only ship to the lower 48 states, no APO/FPO addresses or PO Boxes allowed PAYMENT We accept payment by PayPal only Can accept all kind of credit cards. Please pay as soon as possible after winning an auction, as that will allow us to post your item to you sooner. Payment must be received within 3 business days of auction closing. Before buying, please make sure your PayPal and eBay address is correct. If not, please correct it before payment. We have confidence in our products, but if you are not fully satisfied please contact us within 30 days of purchase and you will get full refund of your money. Return the product in the same condition you received it. Please note - return shipping will be paid by the buyer.

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