Edie - Brossura

Stein, Jean

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0802134106 ISBN 13: 9780802134103

Casa editrice: Grove Pr, 1994

Riassunto

Chronicles the short life of Edie Sedgwick and her rise to become one of the Warhol superstars, as viewed by her family and such personalities as Capote, Vidal, and Warhol.

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Recensione:

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

Extraordinary . . . a fascinating narrative that is both meticulously reported and expertly orchestrated.” Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

The ultimate oral history and still the most objectively cool book I’ve ever read. It’s perfectly structured and the most important book about America in the 1960s.”—Sloane Crosley, T: The New York Times Style Magazine

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

Jean Stein’s 1982 book Edie: American Girl, edited with George Plimpton . . . gave oral history the particular shimmer that comes when lofty literary aims happen to coincide with sheer entertainment value . . . Edie gave an almost mythic quality to its subject’s persona and her brief rise and fall, yet in its telling you could also follow clear lines connecting disparate pieces of 20th-century American life: the hollow cult of celebrity; the fragile prospect of greater opportunity for women; the intoxicating dream of the West for certain Easterners; the peculiar pathologies of the very rich.” Maria Russo, New York Times Book Review

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

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.” Atlanta Journal & Constitution

Is anyone capable of picking up . . . Edie and putting it down before the very last page?” Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review

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

L'autore:

Jean Stein:
Jean Stein has worked as an editor for a number of magazines, including The Paris Review and Esquire. She is co-author, with George Plimpton, of American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy and in 1990 she became the editor of the literary journal Grand Street.

George Plimpton:
George Plimpton was an author, an actor and a literary patron. In 1953 he co-founded The Paris Review and his books, including Out of My League, Paper Lion, Mad Ducks and Bears, One More July, Shadow Box, The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair, Truman Capote and The Bogey Man. He died in September 2003.

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• Editore: Grove Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0802134106
• ISBN 13: 9780802134103
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 564
• Redattore: Plimpton George