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Edie - An American Biography

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  • Vintage Digital

  • Paru le : 23/02/2010
A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick'Exceptionally seductive. You can't put it down' LA TimesOutrageous,... > Lire la suite
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A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick'Exceptionally seductive. You can't put it down' LA TimesOutrageous, 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. Born into a wealthy New England Edie's childhood was dominated by a brutal but glamourous father.
Fleeing to New York, she became an instant celebrity, known to everyone in the literary, artistic and fashionable worlds. 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. 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.'Edie Sedgwick was the spirit of the sixties, and these pages capture her power to dazzle us.
This is the book of the Sixties we have been waiting for' Norman Mailer

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  • Date de parution : 23/02/2010
  • Editeur : Vintage Digital
  • ISBN : 978-1-4070-5329-5
  • EAN : 9781407053295
  • Format : ePub
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
    • Protection num. : Contenu protégé

À propos des auteurs

Jean Stein's father, Jules, founded MCA and she grew up in the golden years of Hollywood. At Jean's coming-out party, Judy Garland sang 'Over the Rainbow'; later she had an affair with William Faulkner, became an editor at The Paris Review, and was Elia Kazan's assistant on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Immersed in the demi-monde of New York, she was close to Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground, and to Warhol's muse - Edie Sedgewick - about whom Lou Reed wrote 'Femme Fatale' and Jean Stein wrote Edie (1982).
That book became an international best-seller, of which Norman Mailer wrote: 'This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for.' George Plimpton (1927-2003) was the bestselling author and editor of nearly thirty books, as well as the cofounder, publisher, and editor of the Paris Review. He wrote regularly for such magazines as Sports Illustrated and Esquire, and he appeared numerous times in films and on television. Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England.
Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsell­ers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.
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