A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick, by the writer Jean Stein
Jean Stein (Author)
Jean Stein's father, Jules, founded MCA and she grew up in the
golden years of Hollywood. At Jean's coming-out party, Judy Garland
sang 'Over the Rainbow'; later she had an affair with William
Faulkner, became an editor at The Paris Review, and was Elia
Kazan's assistant on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Immersed in the
demi-monde of New York, she was close to Andy Warhol and the Velvet
Underground, and to Warhol's muse - Edie Sedgewick - about whom Lou
Reed wrote 'Femme Fatale' and Jean Stein wrote Edie (1982). That
book became an international best-seller, of which Norman Mailer
wrote- 'This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting
for.'
George Plimpton (Author)
George Plimpton (1927-2003) was the bestselling author and editor
of nearly thirty books, as well as the cofounder, publisher, and
editor of the Paris Review. He wrote regularly for such magazines
as Sports Illustrated and Esquire, and he appeared numerous times
in films and on television.
Ottessa Moshfegh (Introducer)
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her
first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle
Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for
debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her
Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times
bestsell-ers. She is also the author of the short story collection
Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in
Southern California.
An exceptionally seductive biography... You can't put it down... It
has novelistic excitement
*Los Angeles Times Book Review*
Through a kaleidoscope of seemingly fragmented voices, patterns
form, giving brilliant definition to the very American tragedy of
Edie Sedgwick, a woman...not likely to be forgotten after this
haunting portrait
*Publishers Weekly*
There is no more classic summertime read
*New York Magazine*
Jean Stein invented a form that many have tried to replicate since:
the oral history biography. The voices in these pages give a
sentimental education that is glamorous, dark, sexy, depraved,
comical, and profound. Edie maps the follies and glories of an
entire era—the Warhol 1960s.
*Rachel Kushner*
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