This is a book of Wohl “thinking about Edie and Andy.” Not thinking about Edie or about Andy or about how she saw Edie - because Wohl didn’t really know her that well. She just was, and what she was was perfect. In Wohl’s words, she was always “zoom zoom zoom.” An addiction to uppers and downers and severe bulimia were overlooked by most who knew her because Edie was such a presence that there was no questioning anything she did. So Edie was not so much a “poor little rich girl” as a “feral creature springing out of captivity.” Her only desire was to be going somewhere, to be out and about. “I mention all this,” she writes, “because if it was true of me, it must have been all the more true of Edie when her turn came to leave the ranch, because the isolation in which we were raised only increased over the years, and in her case it was total.” After an early death from a drug overdose, she continued to fascinate, dissected by Jean Stein and George Plimpton in the oral biography “Edie: American Girl.” Wohl’s book is not a recollection or a mere revision but rather an attempt to understand the intense attention, even obsession, with Edie and Andy, and how their pairing anticipated the age of the influencer. Sedgwick was an early “It” girl, catapulted to stardom by being Andy’s muse, the embodiment of the ‘60s Manhattan scene. Had Edie never made it to New York, she would’ve been an “ephemeral and purely local phenomenon,” her sister, Alice Sedgwick Wohl, writes in “ As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy.” But Edie made it to New York and met Andy Warhol.
The romance for Smith came through what she saw in print.
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As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy
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