At the center of each family is a dreamer who finds fortune and strife in Southern California: Edward Doheny, the Wisconsin-born oil tycoon whose corruption destroyed the reputation of a U.S. West of Eden is a work of history both grand in scale and intimate in detail. These stories illuminate the bold aspirations of five larger-than-life individuals and their families. Stein vividly captures a mythic cast of characters: their ambitions and triumphs as well as their desolation and grief. Now, in West of Eden, she turns to Los Angeles, the city of her childhood.
Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol “superstar” Edie Sedgwick, which was edited with George Plimpton. An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie.Jean Stein’s classic biography of Edie is an American fable on an epic scale - the story of a short, crowded and vivid life which is also the story of a decade like no other.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER She was Warhol's twin soul, his creature, the superstar of his films and, finally, the victim of a life which he created for her.
Fleeing to New York, she became an instant celebrity, known to everyone in the literary, artistic and fashionable worlds.
Outrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol.īorn into a wealthy New England Edie’s childhood was dominated by a brutal but glamourous father. ‘Exceptionally seductive… You can’t put it down’ LA Times
A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick
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