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" The story of the model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick is told by her sister with empathy, insight, and firsthand observations of her meteoric life. As It Turns Out is a family story. Alice Sedgwick Wohl is writing to her brother Bobby, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1965, just before their sister Edie Sedgwick met Andy Warhol. After unexpectedly coming across Edie's image in a clip from Warhol's extraordinary film Outer and Inner Space , Wohl was moved to put her inner dialogue with Bobby on the page in an attempt to reconstruct Edie's life and figure out what made Edie and Andy such iconic figures in American culture. What was it about Andy that enabled him to anticipate so much of contemporary culture? Why did Edie draw attention wherever she went? Who exactly was she, who fascinated Warhol and captured the imagination of a generation? Wohl tells the story as only a sister could, from their childhood on a California ranch and the beginnings of Edie's lifelong troubles in the world of their parents to her life and relationship with Warhol within the silver walls of the Factory, in the fashionable arenas of New York, and as projected in the various critically acclaimed films he made with her. As Wohl seeks to understand the conjunction of Edie and Andy, she writes with a keen critical eye and careful reflection about their enduring impact. As It Turns Out is a meditation addressed to her brother about their sister, about the girl behind the magnetic image, and about the culture she and Warhol introduced. "
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Biographisches: " Alice Sedgwick Wohl is an independent scholar and translator. Her translations include The Life of Michelangelo by Ascanio Condivi, The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giovan Pietro Bellori, and On Antique Painting by Francisco de Hollanda." Rezension(2): "Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times : Beautiful . Wohl adds sensitive shading and texture to the group portrait of the Sedgwicks that emerged in Edie --and a spray of light." Rezension(3): "Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker :[ As It Turns Out ] picks apart how Andy made Edie, how Edie made Andy, and the infinity mirror of their shared identity . A great pleasure of Sedgwick Wohl's writing is that it is sisterly in the truest sense : irritated but protective, dabbed with globs of jealousy . Wohl, who has spent decades watching her sister on film, observes her as if looking through a high-powered telescope." Rezension(4): "Lili Anolik, Air Mail :[Wohl] understands and explains the cultural impact and implications of Edie and Andy in a way nobody ever has. [As It Turns Out] is a brilliant and profound work , and, by the end, an almost unbearably moving one." Rezension(5): "Jessica Ferri, The Los Angeles Times :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 . Wohl's description is essential to her (and our) understanding of Edie--but also to understanding ourselves , as we enact this tension on social media every day." Rezension(6): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 1, 2022 With Animal Joy , poet/psychoanalyst Alsadir, a National Book Critics Circle finalist for the collection Fourth Person Singular , gets serious about studying the importance of laughter (30,000-copy first printing). Long-listed for the National Book Award and a Granta Best of Young American Novelists, Ball was inspired by French writer/artist �douard Lev�'s memoir (written at age 39) to offer his own frank Autoportrait in his 39th year. In 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse was a model, muse, and friend to cultural greats and an artist, cabaret star, and driving force in her own right, as Braude ( The Invisible Emperor ) highlights in Kiki Man Ray . With Eliot After The Waste Land, award-winning scholar/poet Crawford follows up his highly regarded Young Eliot (10,000-copy first printing). Standing as both memoir and memorial, Black Folk Could Fly is a first selection of personal nonfiction from the late author/mentor Kenan, whose award-winning works powerfully communicate his experience of being Black, gay, and Southern. Lowell's Memoirs collects the complete autobiographical prose of the great poet, including unpublished early work (10,000-copy first printing). What is home but A Place in the World , and Tuscany celebrant Mayes's new book explores what home really means in all its variations. As Morris explains in her first book of nonfiction, she came to the writing career launched with the multi-million-copy best-selling The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Listening Well (50,000-copy first printing). Composer of the Tony-nominated musical Once Upon a Mattress , author of the novel Freaky Friday and the follow-up screenplay, and chair of the Juilliard School, Rodgers has a lot more to discuss in Shy than being the daughter of Richard Rodgers (25,000-copy first printing). Addressed to Wohl's brother Bobby, who died in 1965, As It Turns Out reconstructs the life of their sister, the iconic actress/model Edie Sedgwick made famous by Andy Warhol (30,000-copy first printing). Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(7): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 23, 2022 Wohl—translator and older sister of downtown New York City art world habitu233" Rezension(8): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: June 1, 2022 Due to her father's mental-health difficulties, Wohl's parents were advised not to have children. They had eight, including Wohl's much younger sister, Edie Sedgwick. Famous for her beauty, mod style, extravagance, and daring cinematic collaborations with Andy Warhol in the mid-1960s, Edie was the epitome of hip big-city glamour. Yet their branch of the blueblood Sedgwick clan lived on a big ranch in central California, where everyone rode horses, worked cattle, and navigated her father's harsh demands. Edie was spoiled and traumatized, developing bulimia, enduring hospitalizations, becoming dependent on pills, and tragically dying of an overdose at age 28 in 1971. Wohl also mourns for two brothers, one who died by suicide, the other in a motorcycle accident. in this sensitive, deeply considered chronicle, Wohl offers a fresh and incisive look at Edie's headline-grabbing adventures with Warhol, her superstar power, and their symbiotic relationship while also musing on Warhol's prescient anticipation of our obsession with images. As for her sister, Wohl avers, What Edie wanted, always, was to experience life with the greatest intensity, and she had no regard for danger. COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(9): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: June 15, 2022 A scholar and translator attempts to unravel the mystery of her sister Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971). In a memoir addressed to her brother, who died in 1965, Wohl (b. 1931) recounts her attempt, over more than 50 years, to understand her sister Edie, who in the mid-1960s, burst onto Manhattan's cultural scene, a fantasy image of upper-class glamour, as Andy Warhol's companion and muse. I'm trying to figure out exactly what happened when Edie got together with Andy, writes the author. I want to know what she had that I so totally failed to see, but that he saw and put to such effective use. Their unabashed self-promotion, Wohl asserts, led to the present that we are all living out--dominated by selfies, influencers, and relentless seekers of instant celebrity. Wohl was the oldest of eight children,Edie was the seventh. They were privileged but also isolated, raised on a ranch and tyrannized by their parents' despotic rules. At boarding school when Edie was a child, Wohl saw only glimpses of the girl she portrays as demanding, headstrong, and often spoiled. Unlike her siblings, Edie's tantrums got her whatever she wanted, and the author partly blames the family's insularity on Edie's appeal. When she arrived in New York in 1964, she appeared transcendent: beautiful, unattached, and eager for life. She was also unimaginably innocent because literally everything was new to her. She was beautiful, to be sure, and so vain about her appearance that she spent hours putting on makeup. Severely bulimic and an addict, she already had spent months in psychiatric hospitals. Wohl is not just interested in examining Edie as a cultural icon,she also seeks to expose their family's dark side: her father, mentally unstable, narcissistic, and philandering,her mother, devoted to protecting him even after Edie accused him of molesting her. One brother killed himself, and Wohl was estranged for years. Edie, it turns out, was not the family's only victim. An absorbing portrait of troubled lives. COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "
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