Black Swans: Stories

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

• | Author: Eve Babitz, Stephanie Danler
• | Publisher: Counterpoint
• | Publication Date: Apr 10, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1640090509
• | ISBN-13: 9781640090507