BOOKS - Edie: American Girl
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Edie: American Girl
Author: Jean Stein
Year: January 1, 1982
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 5.1 MB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 1982
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 5.1 MB
Language: English
Revised, with a new coverWhen 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.