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. who had the other Superstars keeping tabs on Edie Sedgwicks drug taking. Excerpted in Rolling Stone, Edie is on one level another saga of golden lives gone astray, a countercultural Haywire. It may be pop journalism’s first compact, disposable death kit. 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. a birth certificate reproduced by Jean Stein and George Plimpton in Edie. Edie, by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, is not only her catapult into the celestial big time but a small, brightly lit shrine.

Fleeing to New York, she became an instant celebrity, known to everyone in the literary, artistic and fashionable worlds. 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.īorn into a wealthy New England Edie’s childhood was dominated by a brutal but glamourous father. ‘Exceptionally seductive… You can’t put it down’ LA Times Her late-life memoir, As It Turns Out published just before its author’s 91st birthday is beautiful, if not exactly joyful.

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