The �exceptionally seductive biography� of the 1960s icon as told by those who knew her (Los Angeles Times Book Review). In the 1960s, actress and model Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet. She seemed to have it all: she was aristocratic and glamorous, vivacious and young, Andy Warhol�s superstar. But within a few years she flared out as quickly as she had appeared, and before she turned twenty-nine she was dead from a drug overdose. In a dazzling tapestry of voices�family, friends, lovers, rivals�the entire meteoric trajectory of Edie Sedgwick�s life is brilliantly captured. And so is the Pop Art world of the �60s: the sex, drugs, fashion, music�the mad rush for pleasure and fame. All glitter and flash on the outside, it was hollow and desperate within�like Edie herself, and like her mentor, Andy Warhol. Alternately mesmerizing, tragic, and horrifying, this book shatters many myths about the �60s experience in America. �This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for.� �Norman Mailer.… (more)