Edie

American Girl

By Jean Stein; George Plimpton (Editor)
(Grove Press, Paperback, 9780802134103, 564pp.)

Publication Date: October 1994

Categories: General, United States - 20th Century

“This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for.”—Norman Mailer

“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

“Extraordinary . . . a fascinating narrative that is both meticulously reported and expertly orchestrated.”—The New York Times

“An exceptionally seductive biography. . . . You can’t put it down. . . . It has novelistic excitement.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

“What makes this book so unusual, unique almost, is the picture it paints of the New York counterculture. No one has ever done it better.”—The Atlanta Journal & Constitution

“There is no more classic summertime read.” —New York Magazine