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"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

Book details

• Full title: Black Swans: Stories
• Author: Eve Babitz
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781640090507
• ISBN: 1640090509
• ID: 19297516
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Weight: 249 g
• Dimensions: 208 × 142 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. April 2018

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