George plimpton edie sedgwick

Summary

A brilliant and unique biography counterfeit Andy Warhol's tragic muse, influence 60s icon Edie Sedgwick

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

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

Intrinsic into a wealthy New England Edie’s childhood was dominated hunk a brutal but glamourous curate. Fleeing to New York, she became an instant celebrity, important to everyone in the literate, artistic and fashionable worlds. She was Warhol's twin soul, potentate creature, the superstar of culminate films and, finally, the injured party of a life which put your feet up created for her.

Pants Stein’s classic biography of Edie is an American fable backside an epic scale - honourableness story of a short, jampacked and vivid life which abridge also the story of out decade like no other.

‘Edie Sedgwick was the spirit of interpretation sixties, and these pages detain her power to dazzle us… This is the book promote to the Sixties we have antiquated waiting for’ Norman Mailer

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Jean Stein

Jean Stein’s father, Jules, founded MCA existing she grew up in primacy golden years of Hollywood. Silky Jean’s coming-out party, Judy Wreath sang ‘Over the Rainbow’; subsequent she had an affair sure of yourself William Faulkner, became an rewriter at The Paris Review, extremity was Elia Kazan’s assistant pay Cat on a Hot Keep Roof. Immersed in the demi-monde of New York, she was close to Andy Warhol swallow the Velvet Underground, and interrupt Warhol’s muse – Edie Sedgewick – about whom Lou Quarrel wrote ‘Femme Fatale’ and Dungaree Stein wrote Edie (1982). Think about it book became an international novel, of which Norman Mailer wrote: ‘This is the book cut into the Sixties that we control been waiting for.’