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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
5.0
Fuzzy...One of the most evil parents ever depicted in non-fiction, fiction, all of it?!
cheyenneisreading's review
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.
buntyskid's review
4.0
I read this as an e-book, and it was a bit confusing at first because I didn’t realize that the uppercase names indicated that the text that followed was an interview from that person.
Not the straightforward biography I was expecting, but an oral history, a collection of interviews from people who had known Edie.
It took me awhile to figure out the format of the book, especially at the beginning which was all about ancestors, and I wasn’t familiar with who was speaking. So many nicknames!
There was tons of information about people in Edie’s life that didn’t relate directly to Edie, which was not that helpful. It could definitely have been tightened up and had more of the focus on her, specifically.
For example I didn’t really need to know a great deal about the swastika-wielding motorcycle guys she briefly hung around with towards the end of her life. This included a picture of a dead guy’s casket with a Nazi flag over it—extremely offputting.
It took quite a while for her to get to New York and for the real important art scene stuff to happen to her.
The introduction to Andy Warhol was explained quite well and the making of the movies, and everything at the factory was very enlightening.
Also interesting to hear more of the details on the Bob Dylan connection.
The real revelation to me in the book was what a good artist Edie was. The photographs show some of her pencil drawings of animals, and she was super talented. So it’s a shame that everything in her life became about her looks and her persona, when she could’ve been an artist in her own right. And not just Andy’s arm candy.
Very sad about her brothers, and her awful father and weak, passive mother.
Sad also that even the sisters in the family couldn’t or didn’t support Edie either. So many lost souls. Poor Little Rich Girl indeed. Very sad.
I rewatched the movie Factory Girl afterwards and understood a lot of things better regarding the facts of her life, shown in the movie.
One ( probably) manufactured scene showed her calming the horse they used in the cowboy movie. The actors were mistreating it, they didn’t know what they were doing, the horse was upset. She jumped in and settled the horse. Seemed like it could have been true, given her love and connection to horses, even if it didn’t really happen that way.
The book did cover the fact that they had the horse in the studio, and that it was freaked out.
So much to say about Image vs Reality in this book.
Wonder what happened to her art. Poor Edie.
Not the straightforward biography I was expecting, but an oral history, a collection of interviews from people who had known Edie.
It took me awhile to figure out the format of the book, especially at the beginning which was all about ancestors, and I wasn’t familiar with who was speaking. So many nicknames!
There was tons of information about people in Edie’s life that didn’t relate directly to Edie, which was not that helpful. It could definitely have been tightened up and had more of the focus on her, specifically.
For example I didn’t really need to know a great deal about the swastika-wielding motorcycle guys she briefly hung around with towards the end of her life. This included a picture of a dead guy’s casket with a Nazi flag over it—extremely offputting.
It took quite a while for her to get to New York and for the real important art scene stuff to happen to her.
The introduction to Andy Warhol was explained quite well and the making of the movies, and everything at the factory was very enlightening.
Also interesting to hear more of the details on the Bob Dylan connection.
The real revelation to me in the book was what a good artist Edie was. The photographs show some of her pencil drawings of animals, and she was super talented. So it’s a shame that everything in her life became about her looks and her persona, when she could’ve been an artist in her own right. And not just Andy’s arm candy.
Very sad about her brothers, and her awful father and weak, passive mother.
Sad also that even the sisters in the family couldn’t or didn’t support Edie either. So many lost souls. Poor Little Rich Girl indeed. Very sad.
I rewatched the movie Factory Girl afterwards and understood a lot of things better regarding the facts of her life, shown in the movie.
One ( probably) manufactured scene showed her calming the horse they used in the cowboy movie. The actors were mistreating it, they didn’t know what they were doing, the horse was upset. She jumped in and settled the horse. Seemed like it could have been true, given her love and connection to horses, even if it didn’t really happen that way.
The book did cover the fact that they had the horse in the studio, and that it was freaked out.
So much to say about Image vs Reality in this book.
Wonder what happened to her art. Poor Edie.