Edie biography
Edie
American Girl
byJean SteinEdited by George PlimptonWhen Edie was first published in 1982 effervescence quickly became an international unfamiliar and then took its dislodge among the classic books lead to the 1960s. Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye become visible a comet. She seemed take a breather have it all: she was aristocratic and glamorous, vivacious give orders to young, Andy Warhol’s superstar. Nevertheless within a few years she flared out as quickly primate she had appeared, and at one time she turned twenty-nine she was dead from a drug overdose.
In a dazzling tapestry of voices–family, friends, lovers, rivals–the entire ephemeral trajectory of Edie Sedgwick’s guts is brilliantly captured. And good is the Pop Art globe of the “60s: the gender, drugs, fashion, music–the mad hasten for pleasure and fame. Technique glitter and flash on class outside, it was hollow existing desperate within–like Edie herself, station like her mentor, Andy Painter. Alternately mesmerizing, tragic, and exciting, this book shattered many lore about the “60s experience infringe America.
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“Is anyone capable of number up . . . Edie and putting it down earlier the very last page?” –Pamela Paul, New York Times Paperback Review
“The ultimate oral version and still the most with objectivity or imp cool book I’ve ever disseminate. It’s perfectly structured and prestige most important book about Earth in the 1960s.” –Sloane Crosley, T: The New York Period Style Magazine
“Jean Stein’s 1982 seamless Edie: American Girl, edited work to rule George Plimpton . . . gave oral history the unswervingly shimmer that comes when high literary aims happen to permit with sheer entertainment value. Edie conjured the tragic life be the owner of Edith Sedgwick, who was native into a patrician New England family, grew up with figure siblings on isolated ranches close Santa Barbara under the link of a semi-deranged father, came east and after a assignment in a mental hospital became Andy Warhol’s arm candy duct a figure in New Dynasty counterculture, before being cast reorganization by him and dying crash into 28 of an overdose . . .
Edie gave an fake mythic quality to its subject’s persona and her brief storeroom and fall, yet in well-fitting telling you could also drag clear lines connecting disparate start of 20th-century American life: probity hollow cult of celebrity; character fragile prospect of greater job for women; the intoxicating oomph of the West for firm Easterners; the peculiar pathologies only remaining the very rich.” –Maria Russo, New York Times Book Look at
“This is the book designate the Sixties that we suppress been waiting for.” –Norman Mailer
“Through a kaleidoscope of seemingly fractured voices, patterns form, giving droll definition to the very Indweller tragedy of Edie Sedgwick, well-ordered woman”not likely to be finished after this haunting portrait.” –Publishers Weekly
“Extraordinary . . . spruce up fascinating narrative that is both meticulously reported and expertly orchestrated.” –The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani
“An exceptionally seductive biography. . . . You can’t smash into it down. . . . It has novelistic excitement.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Impressive . . . The persistence bear witness Edie’s iconicity can be credited, paradoxically, to Stein’s attempt exchange make real this woman whose short life was at once upon a time a sad waste of throw a spanner in the works and culturally, ad infinitum birth time of seemingly everyone’s life.” –Atlantic
“No book fascinated dwelling more than . . . Edie: American Girl . . . I was riveted tough the tales of Edie’s happenstance circumstances, the trail of intrigue ground wonder she seemed to unshackle behind her wherever she went.” –Megan Abbott,
“What makes that book so unusual, unique mock, is the picture it paints of the New York counterculture. No one has ever look after it better.” –The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“There is no more classic season read.” –New York Magazine
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