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Edie: American Girl - Jean Stein, George Plimpton
Edie: American Girl
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When Edie was first published, it quickly became an international best-seller and then took its place among the classic books about the 1960s. Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet. She seemed to have it all: she was aristocratic and glamorous, vivacious and young, Andy Warhol’s... show more
When Edie was first published, it quickly became an international best-seller and then took its place among the classic books about the 1960s. Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet. She seemed to have it all: she was aristocratic and glamorous, vivacious and young, Andy Warhol’s superstar. But within a few years she flared out as quickly as she had appeared, and before she turned twenty-nine she was dead from a drug overdose.In a dazzling tapestry of voices—family, friends, lovers, rivals—the entire meteoric trajectory of Edie Sedgwick’s life is brilliantly captured. And so is the Pop Art world of the ‘60s: the sex, drugs, fashion, music—the mad rush for pleasure and fame. All glitter and flash on the outside, it was hollow and desperate within—like Edie herself, and like her mentor, Andy Warhol. Alternately mesmerizing, tragic, and horrifying, this book shattered many myths about the ‘60s experience in America.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780802134103 (0802134106)
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 564
Edition language: English
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Wow. Just wow. I am really stunned after reading this book. ..and at the same time also a little bit depressed.     edie is the biography of Edie Sedgwick, THE superstar of the 1960ies Pop Art and momentary muse to Andy Warhol. Normally I am not that much into reding biographies, but I had to write ...
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