Sex & Rage Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time
- 2 Jul 2026
- 9781837263974
- £9.99
- 256 pp
- 135×204mm
- 5 Jul 2018
- 9781786892751
- £7.99
- 250 pp
- 5 Jul 2018
- 9781786894618
- £17.99
- 7 hrs 5 min
In a few words
Iconic LA ‘lit girl’ Eve Babitz’s semi-autobiographical novel of sun, excess and success
In a few words
A rediscovered classic: Eve Babitz’s wry, tender coming-of-age tale of 1970s LA
In a few words
A rediscovered classic: Eve Babitz’s wry, tender coming-of-age tale of 1970s LA
As cool, sharp and delicious as a perfectly executed Mint Julep. Babitz writes with wit and clarity - and always, always with a whole lot of heart
Elizabeth Day
A mesmerising account of a young woman trying to decide what to do about her own premonitions
Jia Tolentino
As cool, sharp and delicious as a perfectly executed Mint Julep. Babitz writes with wit and clarity - and always, always with a whole lot of heart
Elizabeth Day
A mesmerising account of a young woman trying to decide what to do about her own premonitions
Jia Tolentino
As cool, sharp and delicious as a perfectly executed Mint Julep. Babitz writes with wit and clarity - and always, always with a whole lot of heart
Elizabeth Day
Babitz writes like no one else, but if she sounds like anyone, it is Nora Ephron writing songs for Lana del Rey. Sex & Rage is seductive, funny and infuriating – it’s a slacker siren song, a novel about writers and writing and a heavenly holiday to '70s LA all at once
Daisy Buchanan
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INTOXICATING ~ EFFERVESCENT ~ HEDONISTIC
Iconic LA ‘lit girl’ Eve Babitz’s semi-autobiographical novel of sun, excess and success.
Jacaranda – wild child of sun and surf – grows up by the hurling glory of the ocean and believes that good things are infinite. Propelled by drink, drugs and men, she travels headlong through the rip current of West Hollywood’s decadent paradise in the pursuit of pleasure. Before long, she is on the edge: the allure of excess threatens her book deal, the patience of her agent and the possibility of a new life.
Sex and Rage charts the highs and lows of a life lived at the limits, of creative pursuit and of dazzlingly beautiful people in 1970s LA.
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It is the 1970s in LA, and Jacaranda Leven – child of sun and surf – is swept into the dazzling cultural milieu of the beautiful people. Floating on a cloud of drink, drugs and men, she finds herself adrift, before her talent for writing, and a determined literary agent, set her on a course for New York and a new life.
Sex & Rage is a recently re-discovered classic from author Eve Babitz, herself a muse to many an artist, writer and musician in the 1970s. A semi-autobiographical novel, it charts the highs and lows of a life lived at the limits, and transports the reader to a sunnier, dreamier, more reckless time and place.
More about
the book
It is the 1970s in LA, and Jacaranda Leven – child of sun and surf – is swept into the dazzling cultural milieu of the beautiful people. Floating on a cloud of drink, drugs and men, she finds herself adrift, before her talent for writing, and a determined literary agent, set her on a course for New York and a new life.
Sex & Rage is a recently re-discovered classic from author Eve Babitz, herself a muse to many an artist, writer and musician in the 1970s. A semi-autobiographical novel, it charts the highs and lows of a life lived at the limits, and transports the reader to a sunnier, dreamier, more reckless time and place. Coming to audio for the first time in the UK, narrated by Katherine Fenton.
Babitz writes like no one else, but if she sounds like anyone, it is Nora Ephron writing songs for Lana del Rey. Sex & Rage is seductive, funny and infuriating – it’s a slacker siren song, a novel about writers and writing and a heavenly holiday to '70s LA all at once
Daisy Buchanan
Pure pleasure - a perpetual-motion machine of no-stakes elation and champagne fizz
Babitz's style is cool, conversational, loose, yet weighted with a seemingly effortless poetry
Gritty, glamorous, toxic and intoxicating
Babitz writes like no one else, but if she sounds like anyone, it is Nora Ephron writing songs for Lana del Rey. Sex & Rage is seductive, funny and infuriating – it’s a slacker siren song, a novel about writers and writing and a heavenly holiday to '70s LA all at once
Daisy Buchanan
Pure pleasure - a perpetual-motion machine of no-stakes elation and champagne fizz
Babitz's style is cool, conversational, loose, yet weighted with a seemingly effortless poetry
Gritty, glamorous, toxic and intoxicating
Pure pleasure - a perpetual-motion machine of no-stakes elation and champagne fizz
Babitz's style is cool, conversational, loose, yet weighted with a seemingly effortless poetry
Gritty, glamorous, toxic and intoxicating
Babitz's talent is in the telling. She surfs between prose and poetry, describing tenderness and cruelty with equally weighted vividness, and lacerates with her wit. Even though the book is forty years old, the title is more resonant than ever . . . Jacaranda's greatest dilemmas feel painfully contemporary
