{"product_id":"didion-babitz","title":"Didion \u0026 Babitz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA TOP 12 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e AND\u003ci\u003e SUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''This book is magic. It''s all I ever needed'' LENA DUNHAM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEve 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, centred on a two-story rental in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood in the sixties and seventies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7406 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. Franklin Avenue was also the breaking and then the remaking - and thus the \u003ci\u003etrue\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395533676926,"sku":"NW9781805463948","price":10.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781805463948.jpg?v=1778613862","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/didion-babitz","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}