Edie
An American Biography
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A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick
‘Exceptionally seductive… You can’t put it down’ LA Times
Outrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol.
Born into a wealthy New England Edie’s childhood was dominated by a brutal but glamourous father. Fleeing to New York, she became an instant celebrity, known to everyone in the literary, artistic and fashionable worlds. She was Warhol's twin soul, his creature, the superstar of his films and, finally, the victim of a life which he created for her.
Jean Stein’s classic biography of Edie is an American fable on an epic scale - the story of a short, crowded and vivid life which is also the story of a decade like no other.
‘Edie Sedgwick was the spirit of the sixties, and these pages capture her power to dazzle us… This is the book of the Sixties we have been waiting for’ Norman Mailer
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Great biography
Although I am not a fan of pop art or the sixties, part of the reason that I was born in the eighties - two decades away, I found this biography as a highly interesting literature piece. I have only heard of Edie Sedgwick in early 2000's when retro fashion made a comeback. I have heard about Andy Warhol way before but none of his superstars.
What is interesting about the book is the way it is edited. It is full of interviews from beginning to end, no narration from the authors. Not that it is needed anyway since the interviews shown are chronologically ordered and make total sense. It sends me away in visuals about what was happening in each interviews.
For the story itself, it is a tragic life that Edie Sedgwick was living. Behind all that glamour was nothing but superficiality.