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

by Eve Babitz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681370085
• ISBN13: 9781681370088
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

A terrific ground breaking book

A great book about life in Los Angeles, there was nothing written like this before Eve Babitz wrote this book. I must have read it twenty times. It's charming and funny and very sad. Most of all its enormously entertaining.