As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy -- Alice Sedgwick Wohl - Hardcover

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.

Author: Alice Sedgwick Wohl
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 08/16/2022
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 6.40h x 5.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780374604684

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2022 pg. 24
Publishers Weekly 05/23/2022
Booklist 06/01/2022 pg. 15
Library Journal 07/01/2022 pg. 67
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2022