{"product_id":"didion-babitz","title":"Didion \u0026 Babitz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFranklin Avenue was also 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. 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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished:  UK, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Atlantic Books\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 356\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781805463948\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lili Anolik","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57155403776331,"sku":null,"price":14.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9781805463948.jpg?v=1777464225","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/didion-babitz","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}