Edie
An American Biography
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407053295
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 464
Edie Sedgwick was the spirit of the Sixties, and these pages capture her power to dazzle us. I have read no social history to compare with it. While it is not a novel (although it reads like one) I still will say: This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for
Norman Mailer
Jean Stein and George Plimpton have made such a good job of it that the effect is of a novel illuminating a wide spectrum of Americana
George Melly, New Society
Like all American stories, Edie's is about being born in paradise and then being ejected from it... in spite of the wealth and fame and catastrophe which seem to make it singular, it is everyone's
Peter Conrad, Observer
Addictive
London Review of Books
Extraordinary... a fascinating narrative that is both meticulously reported and expertly orchestrated
The New York Times
Edie is always an inspiration. The cautionary destructive tale of Edie Sedgwick, Warhol muse and factory beauty, compellingly told by those who were there
Simon Garfield, The Week
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
An exceptionally seductive biography... You can't put it down... It has novelistic excitement
Los Angeles Times Book Review
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