Edie: An American Biography
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A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick
‘Exceptionally seductive You can’t put it down’ LA Times
Outrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol.
Born into a wealthy New England Edie’s childhood was dominated by a brutal but glamourous father. Fleeing to New York, she became an instant celebrity, known to everyone in the literary, artistic and fashionable worlds. She was Warhol's twin soul, his creature, the superstar of his films and, finally, the victim of a life which he created for her.
Jean Stein’s classic biography of Edie is an American fable on an epic scale - the story of a short, crowded and vivid life which is also the story of a decade like no other.
‘Edie Sedgwick was the spirit of the sixties, and these pages capture her power to dazzle us This is the book of the Sixties we have been waiting for’ Norman Mailer
Edie: An American Biography
Jean Stein has worked as an editor for a number of magazines, including The Paris Review and Esquire. She is co-author, with George Plimpton, of American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy and in she became the editor of the literary journal Grand Street, until it ended in It was described by The New York Times as 'one of the most revered literary magazines of the postwar era'.
George Plimpton was an author, an actor and a literary patron. In he co-founded The Paris Review and his books, including Out of My League, Paper Lion, Mad Ducks and Bears, One More July, Shadow Box, The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair, Truman Capote and The Bogey Man. He died in September
“She Was a Narcissist”: Edie Sedgwick’s Sister Gets Real In a New Book
For so long, Edie Sedgwick has simply been just an image, a mood-board-ready evocation of a different era. Who actually was she? In her new memoir, Edie’s sister Alice Sedgwick Wohl tries to find answers
TextBarry Pierce
Why are we all still so obsessed with Edie Sedgwick? The famed muse of Andy Warhol and s ‘It’ girl, Sedgwick’s image has become synonymous with the effortless coolness of 60s New York. Her cropped haircut and panda eyes led a revolution in style and captured the attention of a fraught era in American history. But for so long she has simply been just an image, a mood-board-ready evocation of a different era. Who actually was Edie Sedgwick?
Alice Sedgwick Wohl, Edie’s older sister, has recently started asking herself that very question. To her, Edie was just her little sister, not this great icon of an era, someone who has inspired countless books and films. The sisters were always distant, they were polar opposites in almost every respect, but now decades after Edie’s death at 28, Alice has decided to try and work out how exactly her little sister managed to influence popul
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20% in and it's still the history - nothing really Edie. Sorry I was looking for her story not about her family back in the 's.
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Much like "Please Kill Me", this biography consists of snippets of interviews concerning Edie Sedgwick and her times strung together chronologically. It's really riveting, and makes for a good prequel to "Please Kill Me", as that book picks up just about where "Edie" leaves off. If you wanted to, you could finish this book in a day, and it would be well worth it. Colorful characters and total insanity throughout - Edie lived through some odd times.
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Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Suicide
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This book offers insights into the tragedy of Edie’s life while masterfully capturing the spirit of s Manhattan. The glamour is stripped away from Warhol’s Factory and the reality of drug abuse, d
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