Edie

The &quote;exceptionally seductive biography&quote; of the 1960s icon as told by those who knew her (Los Angeles Times Book Review).In the 1960s, actress and model 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 shatters many myths about the '60s experience in America.&quote;This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for.&quote; -Norman Mailer