L.A. Women - Softcover

Berman, Ella

 
9780593956755: L.A. Women
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0593956753 ISBN 13: 9780593956755
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2025

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An electrifying novel about the complicated friendship between two ambitious and talented female writers in 1960s Los Angeles and the ultimate artistic betrayal: one writes a book based on the other's life… from the author of Reese's Book Club Pick Before We Were Innocent.

After a steady descent from literary stardom, Lane Warren is back. She’s secured a new book deal based off the life of her sometimes friend and more often rival, notorious free spirit and muse, Gala Margolis. Lane’s only problem is that Gala has been missing for months…nobody can find her.

Ten years earlier, Gala was a charming socialite and Lane was a Hollywood outsider amidst the glittering 1960’s L.A. party scene. Though never best friends, Lane found Gala sharp and compelling. Gala liked that Lane took her seriously. They were both writers. They were drawn to each other.

That is until Gala’s star began to rise, and Lane grew more envious. Then Lane decided to do something that she wouldn’t ever be able to take back…changing the trajectory of both their lives.

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Ella Berman

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One

NOW

Summer 1975

Put yourself in the (finest caviar leather) shoes of Lane Warren. Here, inside the glittering compound in the foothills of Laurel Canyon, she is the person everyone wants to meet-her house is filled with dear friends and shiny young things, and they'd all gut her in an instant if it would make them famous. Because isn't that why they all gather here every Sunday? To prove that they are also people to know? That they too have something to offer the world?

Sometimes, Lane tries to remember when the hunger started in her, but, as always, memories of her early life are hazy, untrustworthy.

Over there, by the towering yucca plant, sits the jaded almost rock star-a local celebrity who never made it past the L.A. city limits. Watch him pretend his hands aren't twitching for the two last quaaludes in his pocket as he recounts the time he almost filled in for David Crosby when the Byrds played the Whisky. And there-just feet away, a French poet regales a crowd with the story of the night he asked Simone de Beauvoir to marry him, a story Lane has heard thirty times in the past decade, a story that has changed ever so slightly with each retelling to the point it is no longer recognizable. And, up the grand staircase, Lane's husband Scotty putting the twins to bed, taking his time so that he can later impress some young ingenue (someone new to L.A. who doesn't know anything yet) with his humble insistence on how equality starts at home. And in the middle of it all-Charlie, holding court as always, seamlessly directing any latecomers to the trays of champagne, the lines of coke, the fascinating people they'll later go home with.

For the past ten years, Laurel Canyon (and the winding roads off it) has been the center of everything. A hidden neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills filled with beautiful young things who just want to create and fuck-some of whom have gone on to become unfathomably famous, others who will remain the same age forever-and through it all, Charlie has been working his magic behind the scenes. As Lane watches him tonight, he raises an eyebrow and she nods, smiling back at him. It's only because of Charlie that Lane doesn't have to be Charlie.

Lane sinks against the bookcase, already thinking about bed, when she catches sight of an acquaintance of Scotty's, Dimitri (a ballet dancer with a lithe body and a mind like the stock exchange), pressing a young blond woman into the corner of the deck. The night is dark, the moon thin as Lane edges outside, her loose cream silk suit lifting in the June breeze. She slips into the shadows, unnoticed by either Dim or the young woman.

"It's not what I expected," the girl, shivering in a gold Lurex jumpsuit, says as she dips her head to do a thick line of coke off the wooden handrail. The sycamore trees rustle above, and, when she looks back up, she seems momentarily bewildered.

"What, did you think it would still be orgies and LSD?" Dim says, his voice unpleasant as ever. "Nothing stays the same. Not even here."

"I don't know," she says, either missing or ignoring the scorn in his voice, the way it invites her to ridicule herself further. "It all feels . . . maybe a little sad. Like when you stay too long at a carnival, and you see everyone packing up. It's a little like that."

Lane feels a dull sting of recognition. Dim takes a drag of his cigarette, about to say something else, when she clears her throat to avoid any further humiliation.

"Lane," he says, his voice suddenly warm and expansive, stretching her name until it gains an extra syllable. "My dear Lane. Please do illuminate yourself-I'd like for you to meet my terribly ill-mannered, unforgivably young friend."

Lane swallows her distaste and steps toward them, accepting the lighter Dim holds up for the cigarette in her mouth. The girl doesn't seem embarrassed yet, which comforts her. There is something about her, some

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Penguin Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0593956753
ISBN 13 
9780593956755
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417
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