NATIONAL BESTSELLER This novel is studded with sharp observations . . . Babitzs talent for the brilliant line honed to a point never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures. The New York Times Book Review The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel originally published in 1979 about a dreamy young girl moving between the planets of Los Angeles and New York City. We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles. Shes a beach bum a parttime painter of surfboards sunkissed and beautiful. Jacaranda has an onagain offagain 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 twentyeight 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 its spontaneous embrace of fate and 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 Babitzs place as a singularly important voice in Los Angeles literaturehaunting alluring and alive. show more