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Edie

Grove Press
Grove Press
Grove Press

American Girl

byJean SteinEdited by George Plimpton

When Edie was first published in 1982 it quickly became an international best-seller and then took its place among the classic books about the 1960s.

Edie an american biography

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  • Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet. She seemed to have it all: she was aristocratic and glamorous, vivacious and young, Andy Warhol’s superstar. But within a few years she flared out as quickly as she had appeared, and before she turned twenty-nine she was dead from a drug overdose.

    In a dazzling tapestry of voices–family, friends, lovers, rivals–the entire meteoric trajectory of Edie Sedgwick’s life is brilliantly captured.

    And so is the Pop Art world of the “60s: the sex, drugs, fashion, music–the mad rush for pleasure and fame. All glitter and flash on the outside, it was hollow and desperate within–like Edie herself, and like her mentor, Andy Warhol.

    Alternately mesmerizing, tragic,