Black Swans - Eve Babitz

Brand: Counterpoint | Status: Hết hàng

420.000₫

"This reissue of one of Eve Babitz’s best collections is a doozy. If Grace Paley was the voice of the ’60s and ’70s, Babitz manages to be that voice for the ’80s . . . With a keen eye and a rambunctious voice, Babitz tells the story of a generation’s version of sex, drugs, rock and roll, and the recovery from it all. A fantastic and stirring collection, apt for our time’s obsessions." — Read It Forward, A Favorite Read for April 2018

"Babitz’s talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures." ― The New York Times Book Review

A new reissue of Babitz’s collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s―decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. Black Swans further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing her reputation as the voice of a generation.

With an introduction by Stephanie Danler, bestselling author of Sweetbitter.

"On the page, Babitz is pure pleasure―a perpetual-motion machine of no-stakes elation and champagne fizz." ― The New Yorker

"[A] true original." ― The Boston Globe

"She’s a natural. Or gives every appearance of being one, her writing elevated yet slangy, bright, bouncy, cheerfully hedonistic―L.A. in it purest, most idealized form." ― Vanity Fair

"Babitz's writing is also like the jacaranda tree in glorious bloom―bewitching an entire city, but all too brief." ― Los Angeles Review of Books