{"product_id":"didion-babitz-by-lili-anolik-9781805463924","title":"Didion \u0026 Babitz","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA TOP 12 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTHE BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'This book is magic. It's all I ever needed' - LENA DUNHAM\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46530094334188,"sku":"9781805463924","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/22653543482830.jpg?v=1749248033","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/didion-babitz-by-lili-anolik-9781805463924","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}