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lisalotte's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
slow-paced
4.0
readingissosexy's review against another edition
4.0
The way this biography was literally Daisy Jones & the Six before Daisy Jones & the Six was??
The interview format! The 1960s! A beloved it girl! Her drug-related demise! It was all here & TRUE & I liked it more. Wild.
Also, I bought this book used & the previous owners wrote "1983" in the front cover. I always write the year in the books I read, so this felt meant to be from the start. Cute. <3
Edie's life was sad & spoiled. Unlike my other 20th century it girls, who I feel such affinity for, I'm not sure Edie & I would've been bffs. We would've shared membership in the Itty Bitty Titty Committee & little else. I probably would've found her self-indulgent. But whatever! An it girl is an it girl & I still liked her book.
Her biographers were THOROUGH, no detail was spared... Edie literally isn't mentioned until like 50 pages into the book because they're too busy setting the scene? Andy Warhol also got like 4 chapters of his own. These authors loved rabbit holes. Might be boring for some, I enjoyed it. I also appreciated the photos. Now that's journalism!! (I am nosy af & need a reference photo.)
The interview format! The 1960s! A beloved it girl! Her drug-related demise! It was all here & TRUE & I liked it more. Wild.
Also, I bought this book used & the previous owners wrote "1983" in the front cover. I always write the year in the books I read, so this felt meant to be from the start. Cute. <3
Edie's life was sad & spoiled. Unlike my other 20th century it girls, who I feel such affinity for, I'm not sure Edie & I would've been bffs. We would've shared membership in the Itty Bitty Titty Committee & little else. I probably would've found her self-indulgent. But whatever! An it girl is an it girl & I still liked her book.
Her biographers were THOROUGH, no detail was spared... Edie literally isn't mentioned until like 50 pages into the book because they're too busy setting the scene? Andy Warhol also got like 4 chapters of his own. These authors loved rabbit holes. Might be boring for some, I enjoyed it. I also appreciated the photos. Now that's journalism!! (I am nosy af & need a reference photo.)
graceliles's review against another edition
4.0
i’m currently in an edie sedgwick hyperfixation thanks to this book. very much enjoyed reading about one of the most iconic it girls and how being a muse is life ruining
mehitabels's review against another edition
4.0
"He chose two quotations for her tombstone : "Some lives bend over other lives as the heavens bend over the earth." The other was from Dante: "Beatrice was gazing upward, and I on her". "
"The always talk about the end. I guess that's when they pulled the silver down from the wall."
"The always talk about the end. I guess that's when they pulled the silver down from the wall."
mybrilliantbasset's review against another edition
5.0
Fuzzy...One of the most evil parents ever depicted in non-fiction, fiction, all of it?!
cheyenneisreading's review against another edition
5.0
Edie: An American Girl give a detailed account of not only Edie Sedgwick's life but the Sedgwick's that came before her. This is the ultimate book about the legendary Edith Minturn Sedgwick and it features a vast array of different stories from numerous people. The inclusion of a amazing photographs just increases the beauty of this biography.