"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 mashnote premise. It is a fullfledged and fullbodied evocation of a bygone Southern California. In ten sunbaked, Santa Ana windswept sketches, Babitz recreates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their success socialites on threeday drug binges, evading their East Coastbanking husbands soapopera actors worried that tomorrows 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 doesnt matter if Babitz ever gets the guyshe seduces us"

Binding: Paperback;200 pages; Publisher: New York Review of Books - IWUK; Classification: FA; Weight: 302 g; Dimensions: 130 x 247 x 12

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