Saucie says her parents were like Greek gods, bright and shining with physical beauty. The early pages detail Edie’s startling heritage and then sister “Saucie” Sedgwick makes an interesting point about her parents and her seven siblings. “She had a fatalistic sense of her family being doomed.” – Cambridge friend Bartle Bull Those interviewed range from Edie’s siblings to people who never met her but who understood her and her milieu. With excerpts from interviews Edie herself gave, this method provides a perhaps surprisingly comprehensive look at Edie’s life and times. It is all presented in the form of interviews conducted by Stein 250 people were interviewed over a ten year period and, for the most part, what they had to say is presented verbatim and in their own conversational style. There is neither preamble in this book nor actual text.
Poor Jean Stein suffered from depression and leapt to her death from her Manhattan apartment when she was 83. This book not only returned her to her rightful place in popular culture, it was also lauded as – in the words of Norman Mailer – “the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for”. By the time it was released in 1982, Edie Sedgwick had been largely forgotten. Author and editor Jean Stein had been a friend and contemporary of Edie’s and she worked with regular collaborator and Sedgwick family friend George Plimpton to create this unique book. Perhaps the best way to accomplish this is by reading the book we’re looking at today. Because equally as apparent as the sadness of her premature death is the utter thrill to be found in learning about this captivating firefly.
This happened to me in the spring of 2021 when I stumbled on Edie Sedgwick.īut it’s too easy to say that her life was tragic and serves as a warning. You’re cruising along in the wonderful world of Vintage Media and everything’s swell, right? Then you run into something that brings to the fore the horrors inherent in celebrity.
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