Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein
When Edie was first published, it quickly became an international bestseller 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.Jean Stein was the former editor of The Paris Review and the longtime editor of Grand Street magazine. American Journey: The Times of Robert F. Kennedy, an oral history with interviews by Stein and edited by George Plimpton; Edie: American Girl, edited with Plimpton; and West of Eden: An American Place, an oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles, were among her works.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780802134103 |
| ISBN 10 | 0802134106 |
| Title | Edie: American Girl |
| Author | Jean Stein |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Year published | 1994-10-14 |
| Number of pages | 564 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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