{"product_id":"9781681370088","title":"Slow Days, Fast Company","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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 mash-note premise. It is a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California. 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, evading their East Coastbanking husbands; soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow's 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 doesn't matter if Babitz ever gets the guy--she seduces us\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67638567436597,"sku":"EB_LI0700_00000_DUBAI","price":83.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0971\/7773\/1381\/files\/9781681370088-1.jpg?v=1791343090","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.ae\/ar\/products\/9781681370088","provider":"Books Kinokuniya UAE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}