Jean Stein,George Plimpton
Revised, with a new cover,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 Warholâ€™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 voicesâ€”family, friends, lovers, rivalsâ€”the entire meteoric trajectory of Edie Sedgwickâ€™s life is brilliantly captured. And so is the Pop Art world of the â€˜60s: the sex, drugs, fashion, musicâ€”the mad rush for pleasure and fame. All glitter and flash on the outside, it was hollow and desperate withinâ€”like Edie herself, and like her mentor, Andy Warhol. Alternately mesmerizing, tragic, and horrifying, this book shattered many myths about the â€˜60s experience in America.
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Edie: American Girl