{"product_id":"sex-and-rage-paperback","title":"Sex and Rage | Paperback","description":"\u003ch2\u003eA Witty Portrait of California Freedom and Restlessness\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSunlit Los Angeles glamour meets the unsettling question of what comes next.\u003c\/strong\u003e Eve Babitz's \u003cem\u003eSex and Rage\u003c\/em\u003e follows Jacaranda, a young woman immersed in the pleasures and distractions of California. Babitz captures a world of beach culture, parties, romance, and artistic possibility while keeping a sharp eye on its emptiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJacaranda Between Los Angeles and New York\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacaranda spends her days around Los Angeles, painting surfboards, drifting through relationships, and moving among people whose lives seem to promise effortless excitement. By twenty-eight, the lack of direction becomes difficult to ignore. She travels to New York in search of a new career and purpose, hoping a different city might help her make a different life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eEve Babitz’s Singular Eye for City Life\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel delivers \u003cstrong\u003esmart, funny literary fiction about reinvention, ambition, pleasure, and uncertainty\u003c\/strong\u003e. Babitz writes about the texture of places as vividly as the people who inhabit them. Readers who love novels of artistic life, complicated heroines, and the contrasts between California and New York will enjoy this distinctive voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Paperback Edition\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1979, \u003cem\u003eSex and Rage\u003c\/em\u003e appears here in a paperback reissue, offering a fresh chance to discover one of Babitz's defining novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Eve Babitz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 × 8.1 × 5.5 in\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 11, 2017\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"The MAG Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931730509923,"sku":"9781619029354","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0621\/6151\/8691\/files\/HgjTMErfmN9781619029354.webp?v=1794596764","url":"https:\/\/myamericangoods.com\/products\/sex-and-rage-paperback","provider":"My American Goods","version":"1.0","type":"link"}