Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein
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Book Summary Author: Jean Stein Editor: George Plimpton Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 1994-10-14 ISBN: 0802134106 Number of pages: 564 Publisher: Grove Press |
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Book Reviews of the Edie: American Girl
Customer Review: a sad story
Summary: 2 Stars
This book was interesting but it left me sad. First, this book wasn't just Edie's biography. If it had been, it probably would have been so much shorter. It drifted into all sorts of areas (even going as far as to discuss a Sedgwick burial spot in detail even though Edie is not even buried there )and that was boring. It goes way way back into her family tree, pratically does her father's biography, her mother's biography and Warhol's biography, two of her brothers. It seemed the author needed a certain number of pages. Some of the people in the book seemed to embelishing things or lying. I had trouble believing parts of their Edie stories. Some of the people "interviewed" in the book seemed to be still doing hippy slang like Edie's brother John and that just made me laugh. I understand that the book is about Edie and she lived during that time but returning to hippy slang was silly. The 1960's are over, adjust to it. Alot of the book is Edie drug stories. It's really bad because it sounds like it's trying to glamourize that sort of life even though it lead to Edie's down fall. In the end, Edie was a rich preppy girl who bought her friends with her money and bought her way into Warhol films. When her parents began to cut off the money supply and Sedgwick became a big headed diva who actually did think she was had talent enough for mainstream films instead of just paying her way into Warhol films, her friends cut out and all she had left was a few family members who were willing to love her to spite her abuse towards them, her being spoiled, her drug problems and her embarrassing them. Sad story. Edie could have done so much more with her life than wasted it trying to be buy friends and instand fame with Warhol.