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The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High, Eve Babitz posed in 1963, at age twenty, playing chess with the French artist Marcel Duchamp. She was naked; he was not. The photograph made her an instant icon of art and sex. Babitz spent the rest of the decade rocking and rolling on the Sunset Strip, honing her notoriety. There were the album covers she designed: for Buffalo Springfield and the Byrds, to name but a few. There were the men she seduced: Jim Morrison, Ed Ruscha, Harrison Ford, to name but a very few.

Then, at nearly thirty, her It girl days numbered, Babitz was discovered—as a writer—by Joan Didion. She would go on to produce seven books, usually billed as novels or short story collections, always autobiographies and confessionals. Under-known and under-read during her career, she’s since experienced a breakthrough. Now in her mid-seventies, she’s on the cusp of literary stardom and recognition as an essential—as the essential—LA writer. Her prose achieves that American ideal: art that stays loose, maintains its cool, and is so simply enjoyable as to be mistaken for simple entertainment.

What Hollywood’s Eve has going for it on every page is its subject’s utter refusal to be dull… It sends you racing to read the work of Eve Babitz.” The New York Times 

“Read Lili Anolik’s book in the same spirit you’d read a new Eve Babitz, if there was one: for the gossip and for the writing. Both are extraordinary.” Jonathan Lethem

“There’s no better way to look at Hollywood in that magic decade, the 1970s, than through Eve Babitz’s eyes. Eve knew everyone, slept with everyone, used, amused, and abused everyone. And then there’s Eve herself: a cult figure turned into a legend in Anolik’s electrifying book. This is a portrait as mysterious, maddening-and seductive-as its subject.” —Peter Biskind, author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

For Babitz, life was slow days, fast company until a freak fire turned her into a recluse, living in a condo in West Hollywood, where author Lili Anolik tracked her down in 2012. Hollywood’s Eve, equal parts biography and detective story “brings a ludicrously glamorous scene back to life, adding a few shadows along the way” (Vogue) and “sends you racing to read the work of Eve Babitz” (The New York Times).

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Isabel Allende is an informative introduction to the distinguished author. Isabel Allende, one of the world’s most widely read Latin American writers, is a Chilean novelest who, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was strongly influenced by her grandparents. Her vivid fiction, such as The House of the Spirits, blends realism with magical elements and spotlights political and often feminist concerns.

Here is a wonderful introduction to Isabel Allende that will help students understand how her family and upbringing set the stage for her life’s work and success. The book is published by Chelsea House Publishers, a leading publisher of educational material.

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“I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.” In this vivid and powerful collection of essays, Emilie Pine boldly confronts the past to better understand herself, her relationships and her role in society. She speaks to the business of living as a woman in the 21st century – its extraordinary pain and its extraordinary joy. Tackling subjects like addiction, fertility, feminism and sexual violence, and where these subjects intersect with legislation, these beautifully written essays are at one fascinating and funny, intimate and searingly honest. Devastatingly poignant and profoundly wise – and joyful against the odds – Notes to Self offers a portrait not just of its author but of a whole generation. “Pine is not simply making something worthwhile out of pain, but showing others that they can do so, too.” FINANCIAL TIMES “Do not read this book in public: it will make you cry.” ANNE ENRIGHT “Emilie Pine is a wise and talented essayist … every line pulses with the pain and the joy and complexity of an extraordinary life.” MARK O’CONNELL

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La loca de la casa es la obra más personal de Rosa Montero, un recorrido por los entresijos de la fantasía, de la creación artística y de los recuerdos más secretos. Es un cofre de mago del que emergen objetos inesperados y asombrosos.

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«La imaginación es la loca de la casa.»
Santa Teresa de Jesús

Este libro es una novela, un ensayo, una autobiografía. La autora emprende en él un viaje al interior en un juego narrativo lleno de sorpresas. En La loca de la casa se mezclan literatura y vida en un cóctel afrodisíaco de biografías ajenas y autobiografía novelada. Y, así, descubrimos que el gran Goethe adulaba a los poderosos hasta extremos ridículos, que Tolstoi era un energúmeno, que Montero, de niña, fue una enana, y que, con veintitrés años, mantuvo un estrafalario y desternillante romance con un famoso actor. Pero no deberíamos fiarnos de todo lo que la autora cuenta sobre sí misma: los recuerdos no son siempre lo que parecen.

Un libro sobre la fantasía y los sueños, sobre la locura y la pasión, sobre los miedos y las dudas de los escritores, pero también de los lectores. Galardonada con el Premio Qué Leer 2004 al mejor libro del año, el Grinzane Cavour 2005 y el Roman Primeur 2006, La loca de la casa es, sobre todo, la tórrida historia de amor y salvación que hay entre Rosa Montero y su imaginación.

** Premio Leyenda 2019 concedido por la Asociación de Librerías de Madrid

Reseñas:
«Se lee, de principio a fin, en un puro movimiento de placer.»
Mario Vargas Llosa

«De todo ello resulta un texto apasionante de lo que llamamos autoficción, porque habla de un yo auténtico que, siendo, puede no ser, revivido en un artefacto ficcional compuesto de imposturas y verdades. Y es un yo sincero, inconformista, valiente, rebelde y vitalista, que construye su íntima confesión con conocimiento y sensibilidad, en un texto escrito con pasión, espontaneidad y frescura […].»
Ángel Basanta, El Cultural

«Mientras uno está leyendo el último libro de Rosa Montero, La loca de la casa, y cuando lo ha terminado, el sentimiento general es el de familiaridad y camaradería. Dan ganas de abordarla y, de tú a tú, decirle: ‘Chica, vaya historias que me acabas de contar’. Y luego atarla para que no se escape; obligarla a seguir contando, porque nos ha inoculado el virus de una curiosidad desatada.»
Loca Beccaria, ABC Cultural

«Sería más ciego que Homero si mi pasión no me dejara ver que Rosa Montero está atiborrada de talento, y cuando embraga párrafo no pone freno a su desbordada fantasía.»
Matías Antolín

«Rosa Montero en La loca de la casa pone en juego todas sus artimañas de veterana escritora de ficción y el desparpajo y la alacridad de su larga dedicación periodística.»
José Luis García Martín, La Nueva España

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