Eve Babitz

Slow Days, Fast Company

The World, The Flesh, and L.A.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 125mm x 200mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 194g
• ISBN-13: 9781681370088
• ISBN-10: 1681370085
• Artikelnr.: 44498493

Autorenporträt

Eve Babitz, introduction by Matthew Specktor