Didion & Babitz.
New York: Scribner's, 2024. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine tight copy with a discreet dot to the top edge in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Writer Joan Didion was a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool expression; an enigma inside her storied marriage to John Gregory Dunne, their union as tortured as it was enduring. 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, This is the story of two L.A. writers whose literary lives intersected during the most tumultuous periods in their lives and in the vibrant city of Angels. Item #29263
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