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Title: Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh & LA
Author: BABITZ EVE
Illustrator: MATTHEW SPECKTOR (INTRO)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/09/2016
Imprint: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
There was a time when no one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated its own kind of moral laws, spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and 70s. But there was one man who proved elusive, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book. She also pulled off a remarkable sleight of hand: \”Slow Days, Fast Company \”far exceeds its mash-note premise. It is a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California. In ten sun-baked, Santa Ana wind swept sketches, Babitz re-creates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their success; socialites on three-day drug binges, evading their East Coast banking husbands; soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow s script will kill them off; Italian femme fatales even more fatal than she is. And she even leaves L.A. sometimes, spending an afternoon at the house of flawless Orange County suburbanites, a day among the grape pickers of the Central Valley, a weekend in Palm Springs where her dreams of romance fizzle and her only solace is Virginia Woolf. In the end it doesn t matter if Babitz ever gets the guy she seduces us.\”
ISBN: 9781681370088
Weight: 368g
Pages: 200
Edition: 01