Slow Days, Fast Company
€22.00
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781681370088 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eve Babitz |
| Publisher | New York Review Books |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.188 |
| Publishing Date | 30/08/2016 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €20.75 |
| Tax | €1.25 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €22.00 |
| Availability | +20 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
"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 longstretch 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 Coastbanking 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 dayamong 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"--