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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The…
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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. (New York Review Books Classics) (original 1977; udgave 2016)

af Eve Babitz (Forfatter), Matthew Specktor (Introduktion)

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"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 long stretch 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 Coast banking 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 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"--… (mere)
Medlem:mkunruh
Titel:Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. (New York Review Books Classics)
Forfattere:Eve Babitz (Forfatter)
Andre forfattere:Matthew Specktor (Introduktion)
Info:NYRB Classics (2016), Edition: Main, 184 pages
Samlinger:Ønskeliste, Read
Vurdering:*****
Nøgleord:Ingen

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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. af Eve Babitz (1977)

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Babitz at her best is a great writer, and there are a number of essays in here that are compelling and pack a serious punch. They look at the world, dissect it, and look some more. Unrelenting, but not cruel, curious, not vicious. Read it. ( )
  TomMcGreevy | Jun 7, 2023 |
eve babitz you are everything to me ( )
  i. | Nov 30, 2022 |
I loved Eve Babitz’s novel, Eve’s Hollywood, which came out in 1974 and captured her fans of all sorts, as she exposed the 1960s through mostly the L.A. scene, all from the inside. In that book, she casually dropped famous names from rock music, the art scene, as well as some of the biggest film stars, not as dry reporting, but from her personal and legendary experience. She was linked “romantically” (as the press of that time wrote) with so many stars. She was drinking heavily, partying hardy, dropping all manner of drugs, and very active sexually, as she was on her way to becoming a legend.

The style of that previous book was looser and much more scattered than Slow Days, Fast Company, which while still describing the excesses of the 1960s and 70s, is better written. Yet, while containing a more refined style of writing, I have to say that if I’d read this title first, I’m not sure I would have read more of her work, as I so loved the wildness of what she was living and writing. In a way, I miss some of the excesses and the pure chaos of the first book, but I still loved this book. She will be in the middle of describing and explaining a scene, when she will drop killer lines that are so clever, wild, and unexplained, but that fit the story perfectly. I’ll come back to this review after I reflect on the book some more. ( )
  jphamilton | Mar 3, 2022 |
I got bored with this book and stopped halfway through. It wasn't agonizing to read, but it didn't grab me. The writing meanders around, and I didn't grasp the stylings to which others have affectionately alluded. I'll probably finish it later. ( )
  DaveReadsaLittle | Jan 30, 2022 |
Los Angeles dans les années 70, on y croise Marion Brando, Mick Jagger, des starlettes et pas mal de désœuvrés qui errent d’une fête à l’autre, d’appartements luxueux en maison en plein désert. Un récit qui parle de futilités, de quête de sens et d’amour, d’alcool, de cocaïne et de sexe, peu convaincant et au final aussi vain que les existences qu’il décrit. ( )
  Steph. | Sep 12, 2021 |
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"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 long stretch 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 Coast banking 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 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"--

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