{"product_id":"slow-days-fast-company-by-eve-babitz-9781681370088","title":"Slow Days, Fast Company","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere 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 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","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/slow-days-fast-company-by-eve-babitz-9781681370088","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}