**Revised, with a new cover** When *Edie* was first published, it quickly became an international best-seller and then took its place among the classic books about the 1960s. 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, and horrifying, this book shattered many myths about the ‘60s experience in America.
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MicsBraves (verified owner) –
WOW – DNF. This book is garbage. Supposed to be about the very short life of Andy Warhol girl Edie Sedgwick. Told in short paragraphs from mostly family members about the history of the Sedgwick family. Who the heck cares about the Sedgwick family? Just another very snobby very rich family with quite the mental illness history. Edie doesn’t even show up until 63 pages into the book. I endured until chapter 17 (page 174) and then I had to give up the ghost. I did more or less browse to the end of the book reading various celebrities’ recollections of Edie. Lots of pictures throughout this very long boring book but they are faded, grainy and many are so bad you can’t even see the faces. I think I’ll use the book to start a campfire.