gave oral history the particular shimmer that comes when lofty literary aims happen to coincide with sheer entertainment value. 'Jean Stein's 1982 book Edie: American Girl, edited with George Plimpton. It has novelistic excitement.' - Los Angeles Times Book Review

It's perfectly structured and the most important book about America in the 1960s.' -Sloane Crosley, T: The New York Times Style Magazine 'The ultimate oral history and still the most objectively cool book I've ever read. a fascinating narrative that is both meticulously reported and expertly orchestrated.' -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times 'This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for.' -Norman Mailer

There is no more classic summertime read.

Edie and putting it down before the very last page? Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review What makes this book so unusual, unique almost, is the picture it paints of the New York counterculture. not likely to be forgotten after this haunting portrait. Through a kaleidoscope of seemingly fragmented voices, patterns form, giving brilliant definition to the very American tragedy of Edie Sedgwick, a woman. 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. Jean Stein s 1982 book Edie: American Girl, edited with George Plimpton. Sloane Crosley, T: The New York Times Style MagazineĪn exceptionally seductive biography. It s perfectly structured and the most important book about America in the 1960s. The ultimate oral history and still the most objectively cool book I ve ever read. a fascinating narrative that is both meticulously reported and expertly orchestrated. This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for.

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