Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. : Tales

Babitz, Eve

ISBN 10: 0394409841 / ISBN 13: 9780394409849

Published by Random House (NY), New York, NY, 1977

About this Item

178 p. Audience: General/trade. Very good in very good dust jacket. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket in mylar. Mild foxing to deckled textblock edge. Light wear to jacket. Unmarked.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0017749

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. : Tales
• Publisher: Random House (NY), New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394409841
• ISBN 13: 9780394409849
• Binding: Hardcover

About this title

Synopsis

First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Chris Blum. Her second book. 10 short stories about the LA arts & cultural scene in the 60's & 70's. Inscribed on the first sheet to Tom Nolan.

About the Author

Eve Babitz is the author of several books of fiction, including Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time, L.A. Woman, and Black Swans: Stories. Her nonfiction works include Fiorucci, the Book and Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night. She has written for publications including Ms. and Esquire and in the late 1960s designed album covers for the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and Linda Ronstadt. Her novel Eve’s Hollywood is published by NYRB Classics.

Matthew Specktor is the author of the novels American Dream Machine and That Summertime Sound, as well as a nonfiction book of film criticism. He is a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.