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Key ideas from the book
- The nine stories look back on the 1980s and early 1990s.
- California and its changing culture provide a recurring focus.
- The stories touch on AIDS, Rodeo Gardens, tango, and Hollywood Cemetery.
- Envy and jealousy are central undercurrents in the collection.
- Readers encounter Babitz’s distinctive voice across a range of subjects and cultural touchstones.
About Black Swans: Stories by Eve Babitz
In nine stories, Eve Babitz looks back on the 1980s and early 1990s, tracing a changing California through subjects that include Rodeo Gardens, AIDS, learning to tango, and Hollywood Cemetery. Envy and jealousy run beneath the collection’s varied concerns, alongside youth, beauty, sex, and the city’s self-enchantment.
Babitz’s distinctive voice holds these pieces together as they move among people, places, and cultural touchstones. This collection may appeal to readers of literary short fiction interested in California and the mood of those decades.
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