Publisher's Synopsis
Born into a family of wealthy and patrician New Englanders, the beautiful Edie Sedgwick became, in the 1960s, an emblem of, and memorial to the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol.;The book is edited down from conversations with hundreds of people who knew her: her immediate family, elderly members of the establishment, famous writers, the glitterati, underground figures, Hells Angels and others. The effect is a book illuminating a wide spectrum of American society and, in particular, the phenomenon of the Sixties in Manhattan. The two principal characters of the piece are Edie's father - a rich, glamorous and overbearing philanderer and formidable snob - and Warhol himself. She was his close companion, the superstar of his films, the victim of a life, saturated with drugs and sex, which he created for her. In 1971, at the age of 28, she died of an overdose of barbiturates.
