I was riveted by the tales of Edie’s adventures, the trail of intrigue and wonder she seemed to leave behind her wherever she went.” –Megan Abbott, NPR.org
The persistence of Edie’s iconicity can be credited, paradoxically, to Stein’s attempt to make real this woman whose short life was at once a sad waste of time and culturally, ad infinitum the time of seemingly everyone’s life.” – Atlantic It has novelistic excitement.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review a fascinating narrative that is both meticulously reported and expertly orchestrated.” – The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani “Through a kaleidoscope of seemingly fragmented voices, patterns form, giving brilliant definition to the very American tragedy of Edie Sedgwick, a woman”not likely to be forgotten after this haunting portrait.” – Publishers Weekly
“This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for.” –Norman Mailer Edie gave an almost mythic quality to its subject’s persona and her brief rise and fall, yet in its telling you could also follow clear lines connecting disparate pieces of 20th-century American life: the hollow cult of celebrity the fragile prospect of greater opportunity for women the intoxicating dream of the West for certain Easterners the peculiar pathologies of the very rich.” –Maria Russo, New York Times Book Review
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