{"product_id":"sex-and-rage-9781619029354","title":"Sex and Rage","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e An NPR Best Book of 2017\u003cbr\u003e A Bellatrist Book Club Pick for July 2017 \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e Staff Pick\u003cbr\u003e 1 of 12 Great New Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer (\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e 1 of 9 Books to Read This Summer (\u003ci\u003eW\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e 1 of 10 Titles to Pick Up Now (\u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e 1 of 6 Smarter--But Not Quite Guilt-Free--Beach Reads (\u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This novel is studded with sharp observations . . . Babitz's talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, originally published in 1979, about a dreamy young girl moving between the planets of Los Angeles and New York City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles. She's a beach bum, a part-time painter of surfboards, sun-kissed and beautiful. Jacaranda has an on-again, off-again relationship with a married man and glitters among the city's pretty creatures, blithely drinking White Ladies with any number of tycoons, unattached and unworried in the pleasurable mania of California. Yet she lacks a purpose--so at twenty-eight, jobless, she moves to New York to start a new life and career, eager to make it big in the world of New York City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSex and Rage\u003c\/i\u003e delights in its sensuous, dreamlike narrative and its spontaneous embrace of fate, and work, and of certain meetings and chances. Jacaranda moves beyond the tango of sex and rage into the open challenge of a defined and more fulfilling expressive life. \u003ci\u003e Sex and Rage\u003c\/i\u003e further solidifies Eve Babitz's place as a singularly important voice in Los Angeles literature--haunting, alluring, and alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Counterpoint LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781619029354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Eve Babitz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36662417883292,"sku":"9781619029354","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9c43c9c4-b984-4f2f-8eee-4729200e245e.jpg?v=1603901854","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sex-and-rage-9781619029354","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}