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Kennedy has written a captivating first novel which manages to be beautiful and devastating in equal measure * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eKennedy's powerful writing, tragic humour and vivid characters will move and haunt you * San Francisco Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003eWhen I want help there's non-fiction but when I want truth, I go to fiction . . . \u003cb\u003eLouise Kennedy has smashed it out the park with \u003ci\u003eTrespasses. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThis is a love story for people that would normally watch political thrillers or historical thrillers . . . You can feel the cigarette smoke, you can taste the Irish stew bubbling, you can feel the carpet, and the tension ratchets.\u003cb\u003e It's plotty, it's scary, it's full of eroticism, it's like Sally Rooney mixed with a political thriller. 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The names in the dedication, Jim Morrison, David Geffen, Andy Warhol, Stephen Stills, and more, indicate the era and depth of this important book.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Steve Martin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sharp and funny throughout, Babitz offers an almost cinematic portrait of Los Angeles: gritty, glamorous, toxic and intoxicating.\" -Carmela Ciuraru, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eIt's so good that I don't want to finish it.\" -Laia Garcia, \u003ci\u003eLennyLetter\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEve's Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e is less a straightforward story or tell-all than a sure-footed collection of elliptical yet incisive vignettes and essays about love, longing, beauty, sex, friendship, art, artifice, and above all, Los Angeles. . . . Reading West (and Fante and Chandler and Cain and the like) made me want to go to Los Angeles. Babitz makes me feel like I'm there.\" -Deborah Shapiro, \u003ci\u003eThe Second Pass\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Eve Babitz is to prose what Chet Baker, with his light, airy style, lyrical but also rhythmic, detached but also sensuous, is to jazz.\" -Lili Anolik, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A beautiful stylist whose flourishes were almost always carefully doled out, calibrated, and sure... 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Babitz takes the reader on travels to New York and Rome, but California provides her main canvas: a place where movie stars are discovered, earthquakes reverberate, and beautiful women overdose on drugs.\" \u003ci\u003e-\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] charming tour guide who takes a wasteland and gives us back a wonderland.\" -Steffie Nelson, \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Her voice on the page is no less mesmerizing than her presence in a room . . . The singular spectrum of her adventures, her friends, and her tastes reveal themselves in her unconventional and delightful dedication page(s).\" -Nicole Jones, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eve Babitz, whose autobiographical vignettes of LA had an easygoing Mediterranean warmth and acceptance (she didn't billboard over the dark side of LA and Hollywood, she just didn't elevate it into a noir nihilism) that was the antithesis of Joan Didion's desert vision of bleached bones beneath numbed nerves. The pleasure principle still prevailed in Eve's writing, whatever the setbacks and heartbreaks.\" -James Wolcott, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Her voice manages to be both serious and happy, with a run-on syntax that feels like a friend on her second glass of wine. Relentlessly unsentimental, she sees people for who they are, regardless of who she wants them to be . . . In \u003ci\u003eEve's Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e, she writes with the aching immediacy of adolescence and the wide-angle perspective of a woman much older-and she's only in her 20s.\" -Holly Brubach, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What truly sets Babitz apart from L.A. writers like Didion or Nathanael West . . . is that no matter what cruel realities she might face, a part of her still buys the Hollywood fantasy, feels its magnetic pull as much as that Midwestern hopeful who heads to the coast in pursuit of 'movie dreams.'\" -Steffie Nelson, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eReview of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eve Babitz is a little like Madame de Sevigne, that inveterate letter-writer of Louis XIV's time, transposed to the Chateau Marmont in the late 20th-Century-lunching, chatting, dressing, loving and crying in Hollywood, that latter-day Versailles.\" -Mollie Gregory, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As the cynosure of the counterculture, Eve Babitz knew everybody worth knowing; slept with everybody worth sleeping with and better still, made herself felt in every encounter.\" -Daniel Bernardi, \u003ci\u003ePopMatters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Her romp through '70s L.A. winkingly fulfills the promises of pleasure and delight so often scorched to nil by writers like Joan Didion.\" -Ian Epstein\u003ci\u003e, Vulture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eEve's Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e-a memoir of sorts that detailed her life growing up in California, attending Hollywood High, and hanging out with a bevy of rock and art stars-announced Babitz as a writer with a brand of glamour that was sophisticated yet gritty, intellectual with a lust for life and also for, well, sex. 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