Slow Days, Fast Company
The World, The Flesh, and L.A
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 b…
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Weitere Autoren: Specktor, Matthew
- ISBN: 978-1-68137-008-8
- EAN: 9781681370088
- Produktnummer: 19526745
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H20.4 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.2 cm 192 g
- Gewicht: 192
Über den Autor
Eve Babitz is the author of several books of fiction, including Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time, L.A. Woman, and Black Swans: Stories. Her nonfiction works include Fiorucci, the Book and Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night. She has written for publications including Ms. and Esquire and in the late 1960s designed album covers for the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and Linda Ronstadt. Her novel Eve’s Hollywood is published by NYRB Classics. Matthew Specktor is the author of the novels American Dream Machine and That Summertime Sound, as well as a nonfiction book of film criticism. He is a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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