num_pages: 256
description: Jacaranda is a dreamy young woman moving between the planets of Los Angeles and New York City. Shes a beach bum a part-time painter of surfboards sun-kissed and beautiful. Jacaranda has an on-again off-again relationship with a married man and glitters among the citys pretty creatures blithely drinking White Ladies with any number of tycoons unattached and unworried in the pleasurable mania of California. Yet she lacks a purposeso at twenty-eight jobless she moves to New York to start a new life and career eager to make it big in the world of New York City.Sex and Rage delights in its sensuous dreamlike narrative and spontaneous embrace of fate work and of certain meetings and chances. Jacaranda moves beyond the tango of sex and rage into the open challenge of a defined and more fulfilling expressive life. Sex and Rage further solidifies Eve Babitz's place as a singularly important voice in Los Angeles literaturehaunting alluring and alive.
language: English
title: Sex and Rage
publisher: Counterpoint