Edie: American Girl

Edie: American Girl

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<div>When <I>Edie</I> was first published, it quickly became an international bestseller 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.<br><br>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.</div>