{"product_id":"slow-days-fast-company-the-world-the-flesh-and-l-a","title":"Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlow Days, Fast Company\u003c\/i\u003e 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 binges holed up in the Chateau Marmont, soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow's script will kill them off, Italian femmes fatales even more fatal than Babitz. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd 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 doesn't matter if Babitz ever gets the guy--she seduces us.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1681370085\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781681370088\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Babitz, Eve, Specktor, Matthew\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Aug 2016)","offer_id":46080872087749,"sku":"9781681370088","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781681370088.jpg?v=1776041340","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/slow-days-fast-company-the-world-the-flesh-and-l-a","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}