BABITZ, Eve.

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Black Swans. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the actor Harold Hesseman and his wife Caroline on the front free endpaper: "Dearest Howard & Caroline, Happy book! Love, Eve Baz xoxo". Black Swans captures the changing landscape of 1980s Hollywood, underpinned with "a bittersweet acceptance that no party, no matter how high the high, can truly last forever" (Aylmer).As a writer, Babitz (1943-2021) was praised by Joan Didion and Joseph Heller but went widely under-appreciated until the release of a 2014 media profile of her life in Vanity Fair. Her works have since been reissued and published in translation for the first time. In response to her sudden emergence as feminist icon to millennials, Babitz quipped, "My whole life, I always got attention from men, and now it's girls who like me" (quoted in Kilkenny).

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