Edie: An American Biography - Couverture souple

Stein, Jean; Plimpton, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0440130034 ISBN 13 : 9780440130031

Editeur : Dell Pub Co, 1983

Synopsis

Book by Jean Stein

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Edie Sedgwick was the spirit of the Sixties, and these pages capture her power to dazzle us. I have read no social history to compare with it. While it is not a novel (although it reads like one) I still will say: This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for" (Norman Mailer)

"Jean Stein and George Plimpton have made such a good job of it that the effect is of a novel illuminating a wide spectrum of Americana" (George Melly New Society)

"Like all American stories, Edie's is about being born in paradise and then being ejected from it... in spite of the wealth and fame and catastrophe which seem to make it singular, it is everyone's" (Peter Conrad Observer)

"Addictive" (London Review of Books)

"Extraordinary... a fascinating narrative that is both meticulously reported and expertly orchestrated" (The New York Times)

Biographie de l'auteur

Jean Stein has worked as an editor for a number of magazines, including The Paris Review and Esquire. She is co-author, with George Plimpton, of American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy and in 1990 she became the editor of the literary journal Grand Street, until it ended in 2004. It was described by The New York Times as 'one of the most revered literary magazines of the postwar era'.

George Plimpton was an author, an actor and a literary patron. In 1953 he co-founded The Paris Review and his books, including Out of My League, Paper Lion, Mad Ducks and Bears, One More July, Shadow Box, The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair, Truman Capote and The Bogey Man. He died in September 2003.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dell Pub Co
• Date d'édition: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0440130034
• ISBN 13: 9780440130031
• Reliure: Broché