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“This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for.

Alternately mesmerizing, tragic, and horrifying, this book shatters many myths about the ‘60s experience in America. All glitter and flash on the outside, it was hollow and desperate within-like Edie herself, and like her mentor, Andy Warhol. And so is the Pop Art world of the ‘60s: the sex, drugs, fashion, music-the mad rush for pleasure and fame. In a dazzling tapestry of voices-family, friends, lovers, rivals-the entire meteoric trajectory of Edie Sedgwick’s life is brilliantly captured. 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.

She seemed to have it all: she was aristocratic and glamorous, vivacious and young, Andy Warhol’s superstar. In the 1960s, actress and model Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet. 'Edie Sedgwick was the spirit of the sixties, and these pages capture her power to dazzle us.The “exceptionally seductive biography” of the 1960s icon as told by those who knew her ( Los Angeles Times Book Review).

In the 1960s, actress and model Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a. 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. Jean Stein, George Plimpton, George Plimpton. 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. 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. A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick