Jean Stein

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.

American Girl

Edie

Stein examines Los Angeles-- and a mythic cast of fortune hunters and aspiring moguls whose quests for fame and power destroyed many along the way. She tells the stories of five larger-than-life individuals and their families, each one representing different aspects of Los Angeles and the American dream. Each chapter paints a panoramic picture of outsiders pinning their hopes on Los Angeles-- then watching as the shadow of those dreams envelopes their loved ones, especially their children, and the city itself.

An American Place

West of Eden

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

An American Biography

George Plimpton

Edie, an American Biography

Grand Street

El esplendor y las miserias de Los Ángeles y Hollywood. Una magnífica indagación en los secretos más inconfesables de una ciudad mítica. En la ciudad de Los Ángeles el sol brilla prácticamente los trescientos sesenta y cinco días del año; en una de sus colinas el legendario cartel de Hollywood anuncia la fábrica de sueños más potente del mundo y en otras se suceden las mansiones. Varias de estas fastuosas residencias forman parte de este libro, que reconstruye la desmesurada historia de la ciudad a través de cinco familias emblemáticas, con su glamour, sus excesos, sus secretos de alcoba, sus extravagancias, su acumulación de riqueza y poder y sus destructivas tensiones. La autora nos presenta a los Doheny, cuyo patriarca inspiró ¡Petróleo!, de Upton Sinclair, y Pozos de ambición, de Paul Thomas Anderson; a Jack Warner y sus hermanos, que levantaron uno de los grandes estudios de Hollywood; a Jane Garland, una joven aspirante a actriz psíquicamente desequilibrada; a la estrella Jennifer Jones, su marido, el megalómano productor Selznick, y sus vástagos, de trágico destino, y, por último, a su propia familia y la figura de su padre, fundador de la Music Corporation of America, pieza clave de la poderosa industria musical. Al oeste del Edén explora un siglo de historia de Estados Unidos, con sus luces y sus sombras, e indaga en el mito del sueño americano y en su tenebroso reverso, con la Gran Depresión, el Comité de Actividades Antiamericanas, la Mafia, los tabloides... El libro, fruto de dos décadas de trabajo, está escrito con el método de la «historia oral» a partir de entrevistas con figuras como Joan Didion, Gore Vidal, Arthur Miller, Lauren Bacall, Warren Beatty, Jane Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Naomi Klein, Stephen Sondheim, miembros de las familias Warner, Jones, Selznick y Stein, terapeutas, chóferes, criadas... El intenso resultado es un imponente fresco de Los Ángeles.

En un lugar de Estados Unidos

Al oeste del Edén

Deborah Treisman

Fetishes

New York

'Exceptionally seductive... You can't put it down' LA Times Outrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol. Born into a wealthy New England Edie's childhood was dominated by a brutal but glamourous father. Fleeing to New York, she became an instant celebrity, known to everyone in the literary, artistic and fashionable worlds. She was Warhol's twin soul, his creature, the superstar of his films and, finally, the victim of a life which he created for her. Jean Stein's classic biography of Edie is an American fable on an epic scale - the story of a short, crowded and vivid life which is also the story of a decade like no other. 'Edie Sedgwick was the spirit of the sixties, and these pages capture her power to dazzle us... This is the book of the Sixties we have been waiting for' Norman Mailer

Delusions

Grand Street 73

A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick ‘Exceptionally seductive... You can’t put it down’ LA Times Outrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol. Born into a wealthy New England Edie’s childhood was dominated by a brutal but glamourous father. Fleeing to New York, she became an instant celebrity, known to everyone in the literary, artistic and fashionable worlds. She was Warhol's twin soul, his creature, the superstar of his films and, finally, the victim of a life which he created for her. Jean Stein’s classic biography of Edie is an American fable on an epic scale - the story of a short, crowded and vivid life which is also the story of a decade like no other. ‘Edie Sedgwick was the spirit of the sixties, and these pages capture her power to dazzle us... This is the book of the Sixties we have been waiting for’ Norman Mailer

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