Black Swans: Stories

✍ Scribed by Babitz, Eve

• Book ID: 109552897
• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 148 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781640090507

✦ Synopsis

**"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.
**"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...