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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut 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: \u003cem\u003eSlow Days, Fast Company\u003c\/em\u003e far exceeds its mash-note premise. It is a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn ten sun-baked, Santa Ana wind-swept sketches, Babitz recreates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their success, socialites on three-day drug binges evading their East Coast banking husbands, soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow's script will kill them off, and Italian femme fatales even more fatal than she is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd she even leaves LA sometimes, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the end, it doesn't matter if Babitz ever gets the guy—she seduces us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46431747211500,"sku":"9781681370088","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/17489943482786.jpg?v=1747014076"},{"product_id":"eves-hollywood-by-eve-babitz-9781590178904","title":"Eve's Hollywood","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJournalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been all of these things. Immortalised as the nude beauty facing Duchamp over a chessboard and as one of Ed Ruscha's Five 1965 Girlfriends, it turns out that Babitz was a writer with stories of her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eEve's Hollywood\u003c\/em\u003e, she gives us indelible snapshots of southern California's haute bohemians, of surpassingly lovely high school ingénues (\"people with brains went to New York and people with faces came West\") and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of burnt-out rock stars in the Chateau Marmont.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her deceptively conversational prose, we are brought along on a ride through an LA of perpetual delight: to a joint serving the perfect taquito, to the corner of La Brea and Sunset where we make eye contact with a rollerskating hooker, through the Watts Towers, and shopping at Central Market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis \"daughter of the wasteland\" is here to show us that her city is no wasteland at all, but a glowing landscape, swaying with fruit trees and bougainvillea, buffeted by earthquakes and Santa Ana winds. 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Floating on a cloud of drink, drugs and men, she finds herself adrift, before her talent for writing, and a determined literary agent, set her on a course for New York and a new life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSex \u0026amp; Rage\u003c\/i\u003e is a recently rediscovered classic from author Eve Babitz, herself a muse to many an artist, writer and musician in the 1970s. 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