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Jean Stein invented a form that many have tried to replicate since: the oral history biography. The voices in these pages give a sentimental education that is glamorous, dark, sexy, depraved, comical, and profound. Edie maps the follies and glories of an entire era―the Warhol s.

Edie an american biography ebook free Jean Stein has worked as an editor for a number of magazines, including The Paris Review and Esquire. It was described by The New York Times as 'one of the most revered literary magazines of the postwar era'. George Plimpton was an author, an actor and a literary patron. He died in September Edie: An American Biography.

-- Rachel Kushner

There is no more classic summertime read ― New York Magazine

Through a kaleidoscope of seemingly fragmented voices, patterns form, giving brilliant definition to the very American tragedy of Edie Sedgwick, a womannot likely to be forgotten after this haunting portrait ― Publishers Weekly

An exceptionally seductive biography You can't put it down It has novelistic excitement ― Los Angeles Times Book Review

From the Publisher

A brilliant and unique biography of a 60s icon, now the subject of a major new film.

About the Author

George Plimpton() 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.

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 ().

Edie an american biography ebook Account Options Connexion. Version papier du livre. Edie : An American Biography. Jean Stein , George Plimpton. Born into a family of wealthy and patrician New Englanders, Edie Sedgwick became, in the s, bfoth an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol.

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.’

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.