Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. - Paperback

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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. - Paperback

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. - Paperback

by Eve Babitz
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Book Overview

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. One man proved elusive, however, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book.

Slow Days, Fast Company is a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California that far exceeds its mash-note premise. 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 holed up in the Chateau Marmont, soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow's script will kill them off, Italian femmes fatales even more fatal than Babitz.

And she even leaves LA now and then, 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.
ISBN9781681370088
Author Eve Babitz
PublisherNew York Review of Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2016
LanguageENG- English
Pages184
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Eve Babitz is the author of several books of fiction, including Sex and Rage, Eve's Hollywood, and Slow Days, Fast Company. Her nonfiction works include Fiorucci: The Book and Two by Two. She has written for publications including Ms. and Esquire, and in the late 1960s, she designed album covers for the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and Linda Ronstadt.

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