This collection is a painting of the art world of the 1970s in Los Angeles (where the author lives, recluse, since what was badly burned). The mother Deva Babitz was an artist and his father a classical violinist. She did speak of her, at twenty, posing naked playing chess with Marcel Duchamp. She had clear-cut ideas about sexuality and has never practiced jargon. We adhere or not this crude language but not the "raw", that is to say cut, gay, lively but also poetic, humorous at times. "I think that adultery is an art"; In France, they play more or less cards on the table and ennoble love affairs as creative quaventures, because for most people, these are the only creative adventures that they will live their lives. "
It is very difficult to distinguish between true and false in what it describes. It is found with men, many men. Dailleurs she presents her texts as "a story of love and sen excuse." Occasionally, underlined, italicized few lines to his loved what calls without any discomfort before our eyes
It paints us a few situations in which it is still part, much like the "Martine" "Martine circus, Martine farm, Martine to school Once this is Eve in the vineyards, Eve to the game (baseball), Eve output etc .. But even if she takes the stage, the big winner of these stories remains Los Angeles, the beautiful, mysterious, facetious, the disturbing, the changeante..que lon discovered through a woman's eyes We shout his love for this place ..