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Title: L.A. Woman

Author: Eve Babitz

Narrator: Mia Barron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-16

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Eve Babitz is a writer like no other - she "is to prose what Chet Baker is to jazz" (Vanity Fair) - and she has influenced a generation of writers, readers, and listeners with her sophisticated, witty, and delightful work. L.A. Woman is quintessential Babitz, the story of Sophie, a 20-something blonde Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A.; and Lola, a German immigrant who settles in Hollywood in the '20s to drive Pierce Arrows recklessly down Sunset Boulevard and who knows that Maybelline mascara cakes and that Rudolph Valentino is the essence of life. Sophie and Lola, like the many other women who move in and out of this electric saga, know that while L.A. is constantly changing, it is essentially eternal; through their eyes we see the mixture of high culture and low, the promises of youth and the fulfillment of nostalgia, the pink sunsets and the palm trees. And through this fantastic tale, Babitz shares what it is to be a woman in what she convinces us is the capital of civilization.

Members Reviews:

Fiction that is True

An ultimate free spirited girl of the 60s growing up in LA. While her books are generally unknown now, I read the article about her in Vanity Fair and was quite fascinated. Her fiction is really stories of her life and her friends. This particular book has characters of her parents relatives and friends but also a character of her. While I have no idea who the earlier characters are like the famous female movie star, I'm sure those with more knowledge can easily identify this person.

It's not earth shattering and as a Kindle reader, I doubt I will read more in regular book form. But I would like to. Great stories of LA in a fascinating time when it was the place to be in the world.

I loved the older Hollywood references and totally knew where everything ...

I lived where the character did, only in more recent times. I loved the older Hollywood references and totally knew where everything happened. Reminiscent of Valley of the Dolls if you like those books, which I do.

This isn't my favorite of Eve's work

This isn't my favorite of Eve's work, but I really enjoyed her stylings too much to notice that many of the places, people, and set pieces of the novel are familiar from the rest of her work.

EVE BABITZ AGAIN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS

Eve Babitz is a wonderfully fresh writer who can only be compared to Charles Bukowski Both of them describe Los Angeles, and particularly

Hollywood (where she and I grew up blocks from each other though I never met her). As far as I am concerned, the best view of Hollywood

is the rear view mirror of your car, as I discovered escaping to San Francisco. But no one, including me, has written such good descriptions

of my home town as Babitz and Bukowski.

Lee Hopkins

Five Stars

like her writing a lot.