{"product_id":"9781640090507","title":"Black Swans","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Babitz’s talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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. \u003ci\u003eBlack Swans\u003c\/i\u003e further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing her reputation as the voice of a generation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"On the page, Babitz is pure pleasure—a perpetual-motion machine of no-stakes elation and champagne fizz.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] true original.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" — \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Babitz's writing is also like the jacaranda tree in glorious bloom—bewitching an entire city, but all too brief.\" — \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060579254512,"sku":"9781640090507","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781640090507_p0.jpg?v=1763685136","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781640090507","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}