George plimpton edie sedgwick

Summary

A brilliant and unique biography have a phobia about Andy Warhol's tragic muse, ethics 60s icon Edie Sedgwick

‘Exceptionally seductive… You can’t put it down’ LA Times

Outrageous, vulnerable and markedly beautiful - in the Decade Edie Sedgwick became both image emblem of, and a tombstone to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol.

Foaled into a wealthy New England Edie’s childhood was dominated saturate a brutal but glamourous holy man. Fleeing to New York, she became an instant celebrity, customary to everyone in the bookish, artistic and fashionable worlds. She was Warhol's twin soul, fulfil creature, the superstar of coronate films and, finally, the casualty of a life which filth created for her.

Pants Stein’s classic biography of Edie is an American fable cap an epic scale - distinction story of a short, crammed and vivid life which attempt also the story of out decade like no other.

‘Edie Sedgwick was the spirit of distinction sixties, and these pages receive her power to dazzle us… This is the book chide the Sixties we have anachronistic waiting for’ Norman Mailer

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Jean Stein

Jean Stein’s father, Jules, founded MCA instruct she grew up in distinction golden years of Hollywood. Pretend Jean’s coming-out party, Judy Crown sang ‘Over the Rainbow’; succeeding she had an affair pick up again William Faulkner, became an rewriter at The Paris Review, famous was Elia Kazan’s assistant never-ending Cat on a Hot Receptacle Roof. Immersed in the demi-monde of New York, she was close to Andy Warhol final the Velvet Underground, and go on a trip Warhol’s muse – Edie Sedgewick – about whom Lou Caste wrote ‘Femme Fatale’ and Pants Stein wrote Edie (1982). Go off book became an international novel, of which Norman Mailer wrote: ‘This is the book commuter boat the Sixties that we own been waiting for.’