{"product_id":"slow-days-fast-company","title":"Slow Days, Fast Company","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlow Days, Fast Company\u003c\/i\u003e is a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California that far exceeds its mash-note premise. 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 holed up in the Chateau Marmont, soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow's script will kill them off, Italian femmes fatales even more fatal than Babitz. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd she even leaves LA now and then, 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.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67618094711027,"sku":"9781681370088","price":26.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/7432\/5312\/files\/imageloader_0d8079fc-2779-4d7a-9575-a0a9b6df8ff3.jpg?v=1790870569","url":"https:\/\/letterpressplay.com\/en-ca\/products\/slow-days-fast-company","provider":"Letterpress PLAY","version":"1.0","type":"link"}