Slow Days Fast Company

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HollywoodP#39;s golden girl is back in Plt;IPgt;Slow Days, Fast CompanyPlt;/IPgt;, Eve BabitzP#39;s collection of dispatches from the City of Angels, only as she could experience it. Babitz calls this her favorite of the books she wrote, and after the success of Plt;IPgt;EveP#39;s HollywoodPlt;/IPgt;, published by NYRB Classics in Fall 2015, Plt;IPgt;Slow Days, Fast CompanyPlt;/IPgt; is poised to become a favorite of Babitz fans new and old, too.

No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated P#8220;its own kind of moral laws,P#8221; 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 P#8217;70s. One man proved elusive, however, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book. Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;Slow Days, Fast CompanyPlt;/iPgt; 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 windP#8211;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 tomorrowP#8217;s script will kill them off, Italian femmes fatales even more fatal than Babitz. Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;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 doesnP#8217;t matter if Babitz ever gets the guyP#8212;she seduces us.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781681370088
Published: August 2016

Number of pages: 200
Width: 128 mm
Height: 203 mm
Depth: 12 mm

Publisher: New York Review Books