Edie: American Girl by George Plimpton Reviews

“As fellow Warhol superstar Jane Holzer once said of Edie, "Her looks, her expressions, I think, were her sense of humor." The uncertainty of this quote, even from a person who knew her well, is indicative of a greater motif in that, while so much of Edie's history is covered in this book, the ambivalence about who she really was remains at the forefront of her life's story. And that, as we all know, was the greatest tragedy of the Edie Sedgwick tale--never being truly understood by anyone. Warhol said it best when he asserted, "She had a poignantly vacant, vulnerable quality that made her a reflection of everybody's private fantasies. She could be anything you wanted her to be—a little girl, a woman, intelligent, dumb, rich, poor—anything. She was a wonderful, beautiful blank. The mystique to end all mystiques."”