![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "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 "This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for."-Norman Mailer Alternately mesmerizing, tragic, and horrifying, this book shattered 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. Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet. 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. ![]()
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