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

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. (New York Review Books Classics)

No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated â€œits own kind of moral laws,â€ 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 â€™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 windâ€“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 tomorrowâ€™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 doesnâ€™t matter if Babitz ever gets the guyâ€”she seduces us.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781681370088
Color Pink
ReleaseDate 2016-08-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781681370088

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. (New York Review Books Classics)