I just loved the book and beautiful descriptions…beautifully done.Īs It Turns Out by Alice Wohl is really a lament for Edie and a search for the causes of Edie's self destruction at 28. In any case, she has no idea I am writing a review and I do not want my grammar corrected! Lol. A huge shift was occurring and it is out lined in context in these pages…and this same shift and underlying causes remain completely relevant for just this moment. What was happening in that time politically/socially is happening right now. The timing of this book could not be better. I don’t think anyone blames Andy Warhol for anything…I do think I have a far better understanding of his humanity than I did.

So there is quite a bit of, of course! Going on…a brief musical analysis in the mix was a viewpoint I could never have considered. I learned quite a bit here that I did not know and things that should have been obvious to me…of course are made immediately obvious here. I have art degree and spent considerable time familiarizing myself with Warhol not because of Edie but because this is part of the curriculum at any art school. No one else on the planet could have written this book. You have a sibling with academic art knowledge base…and then another rather unexpected musical background. Analysis of what Warhol was trying to do and was doing I thought particularly good and done with a set of tools that are completely unique to Alice. The author is making an attempt though to understand what is was that caused others to love her…when they could not know her at all. Edie was deeply loved by those who knew her.

It is a memoir of sorts written out of love and I am certain years of anguish in an attempt to understand huge unspeakable loss and at the same time beauty.

Fans of Edie and Edie should feel fortunate to be able to have a glimpse of what is so deeply personal. This is a book that is not written for fans of Edie and Andy…it is the bonus though. I suppose I am able to place myself in some of these locations and the descriptions and the relationships all the more compelling. It accurately describes and consistently tells what I had been told as a child. A friend alerted me to it and I immediately ordered. I had no idea this book was being written.

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